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I am so sick of American punctuation getting such a bad rap. The real logical way to write is the way that will be understood and appreciated by one's readers.
Wikipedia outright banned American punctuation, even on American English articles. It now requires the dumbed-down version of British that you describe. People can ACTUALLY get brought up on AN/I for using American punctuation.
Commented Jun 9, 2011 on “Logical Punctuation” and Quotation Marks: In Defense of CMOS at The Subversive Copy Editor Blog
“Logical Punctuation” and Quotation Marks: In Defense of CMOS
I must admit I was taken aback by David Marsh’s blog post last week at Mind Your Language. In “‘The British Style’? ‘The American Way?’ They Are Not So Different,” he explains that British style for punctuating quotations is not as “logical” as popularly thought. Am I the only one who didn’t k...
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