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Originally posted by shavixmir
It's cold and calculated.

We're talking about something like culture. Sure, there are a lot of buts, ifs and what-have-yous, but that's what makes it beautiful.

Otherwise it's just maths. With an S!

Have you never sensed the beauty of maths? Maybe it would be math.

Originally posted by AThousandYoung
"This is what is meant". That just feels better. It makes sense. It's more aesthetically pleasing.

That doesn't make any sense. The sentence you're quoting needs its punctuation.

Originally posted by smw6869
Can't we please get back to the topic of killing thugs? Please!

F. GRANNY.

We're murdering the English language. Wait your turn; we'll come for you next.

Oh wait, you're armed. Well we'll go after Shav then. 🙂

Originally posted by Palynka
That doesn't make any sense. The sentence you're quoting needs its punctuation.

OK. I don't know if Shav was actually quoting something.

"That doesn't make any sense.".

No, that kinda looks funny.

No matter how you do it it looks wrong to me. Oh well.

Originally posted by AThousandYoung
OK. I don't know if Shav was actually quoting something.

"That doesn't make any sense.".

No, that kinda looks funny.

No matter how you do it it looks wrong to me. Oh well.

There's no sentence outside the quotation marks, so the full stop after the quotation marks doesn't make sense. It's different if you have a quote "within a sentence".

Originally posted by Nordlys
There's no sentence outside the quotation marks, so the full stop after the quotation marks doesn't make sense. It's different if you have a quote "within a sentence".

My intuition tells me that periods should be a clean end to a sentence, that's all. That's why this issue feels so awkward to me.

However I believe I am capable of writing in a technically correct way. I just find this part of that technical correctness awkward.

Originally posted by AThousandYoung
Exactly. I cannot stand that. The period is supposed to end the sentence, but then there's that little dangly endquote invading the space of the next sentence.

"This is what is meant". That just feels better. It makes sense. It's more aesthetically pleasing.

No it doesn't.
Why on earth would the full stop be outside the quote???

Originally posted by AThousandYoung
My intuition tells me that periods should be a clean end to a sentence, that's all.

They are a clean end to a sentence, but if the whole sentence is within quotation marks, it needs to be ended cleanly within the quotation marks, too.

Originally posted by Nordlys
They are a clean end to a sentence, but if the whole sentence is within quotation marks, it needs to be ended cleanly within the quotation marks, too.

Hear, hear!

Originally posted by Nordlys
They are a clean end to a sentence, but if the whole sentence is within quotation marks, it needs to be ended cleanly within the quotation marks, too.

And the poor sentence which comes next has to deal with the prior sentence's elbows. It's so sad. 🙁

Originally posted by AThousandYoung
And the poor sentence which comes next has to deal with the prior sentence's elbows. It's so sad. 🙁

That's why you start a sentence with a capital...

Originally posted by shavixmir
That's why you start a sentence with a capital...

Why is it called a "full stop" if the sentence doesn't stop fully but continues on after the "full stop"?

Originally posted by AThousandYoung
Why is it called a "full stop" if the sentence doesn't stop fully but continues on after the "full stop"?

It's only a full stop when it ends a sentence.
When you're quoting something, then what you're quoting gets the full stop, unless it's part of a larger sentence...

Originally posted by shavixmir
It's only a full stop when it ends a sentence.
When you're quoting something, then what you're quoting gets the full stop, unless it's part of a larger sentence...

What if the quote IS part of a larger sentence?

For example, you wrote "It's only a full stop when it ends a sentence." How come the sentence doesn't end at the period? There's a natural dividor in the period, but to the right of that natural dividor (is it -er or -or?) there's a symbol that applies to the sentence to the left of the period. 😠

Originally posted by Mexico
And support the USA in what exactly?

I meant against the criminals and illegal Mexicans. The ones HERE. Not "policing the world" but policing our own streets!