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<title>This is True: Language</title>
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 <title>A &quot;Letter&quot;? From an &quot;Editor&quot;!</title>
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  <![CDATA[<p>Do the ! and ? in the title above, in relation to the quotation marks, bother you? Vindicate you? Make you wonder? Maybe you'll enjoy this little debate, which opened in the 22 January 2006 issue.</p>

<p>Julia in Virginia wrote: "I'm a professional copyeditor. Commas always go inside quotation marks." (Apparently professional copyeditors like to be terse.) I responded with a link to the relevant portion of <i>True</i>'s <a href="http://www.thisistrue.com/faq.html">Frequently Asked Questions list</a>, which I'll reproduce here so you don't have to go look:</p>

<blockquote><b>Q: Why does <i>True</i> use non-standard punctuation marks around quotation marks?</b></p>
<p><b>A: "Standard" depends on your point of view.</b>  An average American would write

<blockquote>I like "This is True," which I get every week.</blockquote>

<p>while a typical Brit would write</p>

<blockquote>I like "This is True", which I get every week.</blockquote></blockquote>]]>
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