French punctuation oddities (was: Consistent punctuation oddities)

Mark Mandel thnidu at GMAIL.COM
Thu May 1 00:36:33 UTC 2008


On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 10:54 AM, Damien Hall <halldj at babel.ling.upenn.edu>
wrote:

> Enough.  I sense this is getting OT for the *American* Dialect Society,
> but
> those who were interested in the discussion of French punctuation (and how
> it
> might leak into secong-language writers' English) might be interested.
>

Pas du tout! It has long been agreed that this is
   the [American [Dialect Society]]
not
   the [[American Dialect] Society]

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Mark Mandel

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