Hi Michael, On 1/25/21 8:47 AM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: [...]
Yeah, sorry. I misunderstood some of your earlier comments. Otherwise, I could have saved you some effort. By the way, I think the English system is logical :-). A complete sentence includes a period at the end. If that sentence is inside parentheses, then the period also belongs inside the parentheses. This is actually consistent with the "logical" system for quotes, where the reason that in the logical system the period is being placed outside the quotes is that the period belongs not to the phrase that is being quoted, but is terminating the sentence as a whole. With respect to parentheses, German is like English: https://www.duden.de/sprachwissen/rechtschreibregeln/klammern French seems to be the same: https://www.la-ponctuation.com/parentheses.html http://www.cce.umontreal.ca/capsules/3073.htm http://bdl.oqlf.gouv.qc.ca/bdl/gabarit_bdl.asp?id=3357 I am not sure about Italian (I do not speak any Italian). Some sites seem to suggest it is like English: https://lagrammaticaitaliana.wordpress.com/2019/08/07/le-parentesi/ Suppose that you have a parenthetical piece that contains two complete sentences.[1] Where should the final period be placed? (Here is an example. In my opinion, the final period logically belongs inside the parentheses.)
Yes, it makes sense to me.
Quizás los hispanohablantes no son lógicos?
Supongo que después de tantos años usando estructuras ilógicas me había acostumbrado. Ils sont fous, ces Espagnols! :)
Cheers, Michael [1] Yes, having multiple sentences inside patentheses is generally frowned on, stylistically. But it is not "wrong".)
Cheers, Alex -- Alejandro Colomar Linux man-pages comaintainer; https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/
