最終更新日:2023/08/19
A system of quotation in which terminal punctuation marks are enclosed within a quotation only if the sense of the punctuation is part of the original material being quoted.
編集履歴(0)
元となった辞書の項目
logical quotation
noun
意味(1)
意味(2)
意味(3)
[The
American]
system
is
inconsistent:
Place
commas
and
periods
inside
quotation
marks,
but
semicolons
and
colons
go
outside.
Em
dashes,
question
marks,
and
exclamation
points
go
inside
or
outside
depending
on
whether
they’re
part
of
the
context
of
the
quoted
material
(shades
of
logical
punctuation).
意味(4)
意味(5)
The
debate
about
"logical
punctuation"
suggests
two
things.
First,
there
is
nothing
very
logical
about
it.
As
with
so
many
aspects
of
language,
what
you
use
tends
to
be
the
result
of
a
battle
between
what
you
were
taught,
and
what
you
like
the
look
of.
Second,
British
and
American
English
have
more
in
common
than
people
sometimes
think.