[duxuser] Re: single quotes and apostrophes
- From: "Dale Leavens" <dleavens@xxxxxxx>
- To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 21:58:36 -0400
Well they are named that way because of the print symbols. The British of
course do not usually call them quotes but inverted commas which is
essentially what the closing quotes look like. they are a pare of commas, a
curved mark only superscripted and the opening ones go the opposite curve.
Single quotes are, as the name suggests a single small curved mark. They too
are paired. The closing single quote is very similar if not identical
visually to an apostrophe.
On a typewriter and a computer keyboard there is only one symbol for the
quotation mark though in fact there are two print symbols, rather like
paired brackets, that is parenthesis, the square brackets and the brace
brackets. Typewriters did not have the square or the braces until I think
the IBM selectrics and none had the angle brackets < > that I am aware of.
One thing that is odd to me though is that Duxbury does not seem to make any
attempt to pair the single quotes. I would have thought that having
encountered one in a document it would then try to produce the next one it
encountered as the closing single quote. It does not seem to do this. Since
little of the material I braille contains quoted material I cannot remember
how it works out opening and closing double quotes if I have even observed
it. Suppose that is something I should try when I next have nothing to do at
work.
Hope this sheds some light on the naming of single and double quotes.
George, who can still see those symbols may be able to offer a better
description than mine. I am working from very old memory and a nearly as old
optacon.
Dale Leavens, Cochrane Ontario
dleavens@xxxxxxx
Home of the Polar Bear Express!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Terri Pannett" <pann1@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2003 12:58 PM
Subject: [duxuser] Re: single quotes and apostrophes
Dear Dale,
Well, I've seen many of them in U.S. braille. I didn't formally learn about
them, but I was and still am, a bookworm.
Basically, a single quote appears during a dialog when one person is talking
and quotes another person. An example of this would be: Billy said to his
brother, "Mom says, `come in immediately!` and she sure sounds mad!"
I could never figure out why quotes within quotes were called single quotes
and plain old quotation marks were called double quotes.
Terri Amateur Radio call sign KF6CA. Army MARS call sign AAT9PX, California
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