Re: Let's examine a Douchebag Willie Grammar Flame!

> George J. Dance wrote:
> 
>> Cujo DeSockpuppet wrote:
>> 
>> <snip>
>> It's all you've whined about for days, Douchebag. I notice you won't
>> admit I'm right, so see if No-Nads can offer you some slurpage instead.
>> 
>> Here you go, Dreckweasel:
>> 
>> Kooks love playing Grammar Gestapo. Ever notice that, Kook?
>> 
>> But to answer your incorrect assessment, I'll point out the following:
>> 
>> "When quotation marks are used at the end of a sentence, the placement
>> of the period depends on whether the quote is a comple te sentence or a
>> phrase.
>> 
>> If the quote is a complete sentence, the period is placed inside the
>> closing quotation mark. For example:
>> 
>> She said, "I'm going to the store."
>> 
>> If the quote is only a phrase, the period is placed outside the closing
>> quotation mark. For example:
>> 
>> She said she was going to "the store on Main Street".
>> 
>> Note that this rule applies to American English.
>> 
> 
> 
> No, that rule applies to British English. The rule for American
> English is:
> "Put the period inside the quotation marks. (This is a rule without exception.)"
> https://cmosshoptalk.com/2020/10/20/commas-and-periods-with-quotation-marks/
> 
> 
>> 
>> In British English, the
>> period is typically placed outside the closing quotation mark, even for
>> complete sentences."
>> 
> 
> 
> Wrong again. The rule of British English is to treat commas and
> periods the same as other punctuation marks, and put them
> outside the quotation marks unless they form part of the quoted
> material (in which case they go inside).
> 
> 


Thank you ever so much for proving Dockery wrong. I’ve been pointing that out throughout his 110+ page screed of confusion. The moment he finally grasped that geography matters, he promptly went off the rails and began demanding to know where I live. It's typical behaviour for him to change the parameters of the debate when a loss is imminent.
I grew up in several different places, so I occasionally mix grammar rules, and the same goes for spelling. Sometimes it’s simply preference, like choosing double quotation marks because I prefer how they look over single.
In any case, the internet is multi'cultural, and anyone attempting to police grammar according to each poster’s birthplace would lose their mind rather quickly. Dockery didn’t even bother distinguishing between where I live and where I was actually educated.

I suppose if I took a holiday in Montreal, he’d expect me to start following the rules of français québécois. Classic Dockery logic. 


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