According to the Jargon File, American hackers switched to what they later discovered to be the British quotation system because placing a period inside a quotation mark can change the meaning of data strings that are meant to be typed character-for-character.

This can get rather complex when multiple levels of quotation are used.

Because almost every argument, quotation, and issue raised for decades can be found here, the work is often termed ' the deist's Bible '.

The article ends with a quotation from Ben Wilmott ( Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development ): " Employers can ensure professional language in the workplace by having a well drafted policy on bullying and harassment that emphasises how bad language has potential to amount to harassment or bullying.

At the end of each film, the quotation from Army Chief of Staff George Marshall that "... the victory of the democracies can only be complete with the < u > utter defeat </ u > of the war machines of Germany and Japan.

In The Reluctant Admiral, Hiroyuki Agawa gives a quotation from a reply by Admiral Yamamoto to Ogata Taketora on January 9, 1941, which is similar to the famous version: " A military man can scarcely pride himself on having ' smitten a sleeping enemy '; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten.

The other common quotation attributed to Yamamoto predicting the future outcome of a naval war against the United States is: " I can run wild for six months … after that, I have no expectation of success ".

In late May 1845 Engels published the English version of his first book-a quotation: " A class which bears all the disadvantages of the social order without enjoying its advantages … Who can demand that such a class respect this social order?

For example, one can use a colon after an independent clause to direct attention to a list, an appositive, or a quotation.

However, the quotations quite often are not exact ; this can be attributed either to the author using a different source text, or simply to the author paraphrasing the quotation.

Hence the suggestion that the larger theme is friendship – reinforced by a quotation from the Religio Medici which includes the word ' Enigmas ' – can hardly have any foundation ".

In cases where the quotation in question is taken widely out of context it can be difficult for a candidate to find recourse, even though it is very easy to check the accuracy and the context of a quotation by using internet resources ( such as search engines ); in popular jargon, the quotation ( especially if humorous ) can grow into a meme.

The reification can be read intuitively as saying " this RDF triple talks about these things ", rather than ( as in quotation ) " this RDF triple has this form.

This document is concerned with the theologian ’ s service to the Church community, a service which can also be of help to society at large, and not with the manner in which the Church should behave within a democratic society nor with issues of child protection, as Mr Kenny ’ s use of the quotation would seem to imply "

An apocryphal quotation can be found among Spanish historians, where Marx would express a view of the Carlists as a revolutionary popular movement in defence of regional liberties.

The quotation can also be read in another sense, in that St Leger's use of the words " undue ", " severe " and " too unseasonably " point to his disapproval of such a policy.

The sentiment is summed up by a quotation from a Mohawk named Akwsasne Mohawk: " How can Quebec, with no economic base and no land base, ask to become sovereign?

A major part of its accessibility comes from eschewing the use of enclosures like quotation marks, brackets, braces, and open / close-tags which can be hard for the human eye to balance in nested hierarchies.

Or the mildly epigrammatic utterance ( also a quotation ): `` Woman's place is in the wrong ''.

With narration of direct speech, both styles retain punctuation inside the quotation marks, with a full stop changing into a comma if followed by explanatory text, also known as a dialogue tag.

It also makes the process of copy editing easier, eliminating the need to decide whether a period or comma belongs to the quotation.

It is also similar to the use of quotation marks in many other languages ( including Portuguese, Spanish, French, Italian, Catalan, Dutch and German ).

Another early mentioning of the name, this time by Poseidonios ( writing around 80 BCE ), is also dubious, as it only survives in a quotation by Athenaios ( writing around 190 CE ); the mention of Germani in this context was more likely inserted by Athenaios rather than by Poseidonios himself.

However, not only because of the message conveyed, but also Bearden ’ s vernacular realism represented in the work makes The Visitation noteworthy ; Bearden describes two figures in The Visitation somewhat realistically but does not fully follow the pure realism by distorting and exaggerating some parts of their body, to “ convey an experiential feeling or subjective disposition .” Bearden ’ s quotation also demonstrates his supportive view to vernacular realism: “ the Negro artists must not be content with merely recording a scene as a machine.

This antipodean architectural quotation is according to Howard Raggat " a kind of inversion, a reflection, but also a kind of shadow ".

A similar quotation is also found in the Gospel of Luke.

The famous quotation, " We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97 % of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil ", by Donald Knuth, has also been mistakenly attributed to Hoare ( by Knuth himself ), although Hoare disclaims authorship.

This style also places periods and commas inside the quotation marks when dealing with direct speech, regardless of whether the work is fiction or non-fiction:

Double quotation marks, or pairs of single ones, are also often used to represent the ditto mark.

Modern style guides also typically recommend placing semicolons outside of ending quotation marks — although this was not always the case.

They got a quotation here and a photograph there — and it was their job to wrap it up in a comprehensible package — and if it seemed to violate the prevailing mandatory conformist doctrine, they would also be obliged to give it a negative spin as well.

Thai writing also uses quotation marks (, an-yá-prà-kàt ) and parentheses ( round brackets ) (, wong lép ), but not square brackets or braces.

p. 636: see also his quotation, v. 11, p. 692, of a mention of the fifth heaven in apocryphal writings ascribed to Zephaniah ).

However, he also provided this quotation: " Gospel hymnody has the distinction of being America's most typical contribution to Christian song.

The name chosen for the new studio space was favoured within the company because it implied an alternative theatre, but also because it is a quotation from Hamlet.

The quotation is believed by most modern scholars to be taken from 1 Enoch 1: 9 which exists in Greek, in Ethiopic, as part of the Ethiopian Orthodox canon, and also in Aramaic among the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Similar use ( notably between quotation marks or in an appropriate tone ) may also be deliberate irony.

Some languages also allow the use of single quotations as an alternative to double quotations ( though the string must begin and end with the same kind of quotation mark ):

He was also inspired by Jeu de l ' amour et du hasard of Marivaux, by Molière, and took some details from Beaumarchais: the quotation at the beginning of the film comes from Le Mariage de Figaro

( The end of this quotation has also appeared as " some little woman, standing by my man and baking cookies, like Tammy Wynette.

By contrast, when a sentence is in spoken form and the verb involved is one of assertion, the use of that makes clear that the present speaker is making an indirect rather than a direct quotation, such that s / he is not imputing particular words to the person s / he describes as having made an assertion ; the demonstrative adjective that also does not fit such an example.