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Kathy Du Bois <[log in to unmask]>
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The Electronic Church <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 19 Feb 2008 07:37:00 -0500
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Wow, Cec, you said it better. Kathy




At 05:07 PM 2/18/2008, you wrote:
>Phil, you can put a quote within a quote. Just put a shift apostrophe
>(quote) before typing what the person says. Then when you type what they are
>quoting, then you put in another cap apostrophe (quote) and then type their
>quote, and then put the close quote at the end of their quote, and then you
>can finish typing the original quote, but if the end of their quote is at
>the end of the sentence, then you would put an ending quotation mark, then a
>period, and then a close quote to entirely end the whole thing. I think that
>will work.
>
>Cec
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: The Electronic Church [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
>Behalf Of Phil Scovell
>Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 1:55 PM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Writing Question
>
>Does anybody know what you do if you are already quoting, that is, if you
>are writing what a person is saying, and in the middle of what your are
>writing what they are saying, they quote someone else?  Do you use the ' as
>the quotations marks without the body of the speaking person or do you use
>some other punctuation?  I don't read Braille very often and when I read
>using my voice synthesizer, you don't often stop to look at such things.
>So, I was just curious if anybody knows the correct format?  I've seen the '
>used for an inner usage of quoting but I've never know if this is correct or
>not or if somebody just made it up.
>
>Phil.

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