User talk:Brossow

I did find your tone a -little- insulting. And whether or not it is actually spanning paragraphs is questionable, but whatever. As I have been taught it would not be quoted for both sentences, and you have been taught otherwise. Since I only have a minor in English, I won't argue the point further. --Kevrlet 05:54, 16 December 2008

well said kevrlet, i agree. --Chong McBong 06:03, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

• Then you were taught wrong. :-) You won't find any English textbook that teaches otherwise. Sorry if I seemed insulting. Just correcting misinformation and/or improper editing. --Brossow 05:57, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

and Brossow, read this again.. maybe you see that you are wrong.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark#Quotations_spanning_several_paragraphs --Chong McBong 06:03, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

• Huh? Wrong? Do explain. --Brossow 06:05, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
  • Here's what Wikipedia says in the link posted: "For a quotation consisting of several paragraphs, especially in older texts, the convention is to start each separate paragraph of the quoted text with an opening quotation mark, but to use a closing quotation mark only at the end of the last paragraph [...]." Where's the confusion? The quote consisted of multiple paragraphs (two, to be exact). Each opened with a double-quote; only the last (second) closed with a double-quote, exactly as described at the link above. --Brossow 06:07, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

as you keep deleting what i say before its even posted, i will POST IT AGAIN> - as it says, "for older texts".. i still believe it is completely wrong in this case... i am sure somebody else will correct it later. --Chong McBong 06:09, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

• Umm ... I'm not deleting anything you wrote. Whaaa? At any rate, you can believe it's completely wrong, but unless you can find a source that supports your theory I'll just have to let my degree in English education, my teaching certificate for same, and countless English textbooks and web resources (such as the one cited) speak for themselves. But just for fun, here are a few more links to sources saying the same thing:
  • http://www.upress.virginia.edu/authorinfo/msprep1.html
  • http://www.uwc.ucf.edu/Writing%20Resources/Handouts/quotations_and_dialogue.htm
  • http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/577/04/
  • http://www.englishrules.com/writing/2005/quotation-marks.php
  • http://home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/qthrur.htm

• • • well my post disappeared before i even saw it, so i assume you deleted it, and i checked.. it said in the difference bit that it had been removed by you. feel free to check it out.. and i think this disrespect is not nice - i was merely trying to correct a mistake with what i believe it correct. i have had enough of this twoddle, so i am off to bed.. --Chong McBong 06:23, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

• • • • Where's the disrespect? Your "correction" was wrong and I fixed it. I also went out of my way to provide some links to show why the change was made. Seems more respectful, at least to the public, than allowing errors to continue just to stroke someone's ego. Sorry to offend. --Brossow 06:34, 16 December 2008 (UTC)