I hate this grammatical rule

[laarree]

[quote Greg the dogsitter][quote laarree]Dogsitter, are you having your period today?
Ye.s
I'm pleased that I don't even have to add a winky-smiley to my posts for you to get my jokes.

[$tevie]

[quote ka jowct]However, in other, more logical languages, the rule is that only the material being quoted is within quotation marks. You can't get much simpler than that. I choose to follow the logical rule used in German and other languages rather than illogical American usage.
Me, too, but I didn't even realize it was a rule in other languages. I just think it makes a lot more sense.

[laarree]

I have to use the illogical rule all the time because of all the typesetting I do.
Proofreaders are notorious for catching this peccadillo of punctuation and insisting
on its correction.

Here, in my macresource forum posts, I am flagrantly disobedient.


". ". ". ". ". ". ". ". ". ". ". ". ". ". ". ". ".

[what4]

Grammar rules have not finished adjusting to the internet age, where the placement of a period can have a different significance than the period has at the end of a quote.

The most common problem is whether to place a period at the end of a URL when it is cited at the end of a sentence. Typing that period when entering the URL will cause it to fail. Not typing it when publishing the text will make it look funny

... Like that sentence missing its period.

Grammar is arbitrary, contradictory, counterintuitive, frustrating, and it makes almost perfect sense to the people who use it. We're just made that way.

[kap]

Student: "Why fish and not fishes, teacher?"
Teacher: "Because I say so!"

[Black Landlord]

This one irritates me too. About 50% of the time I just say "frack it" and put it where it really ought to go, devil be damned.

[laarree]

[quote Black Landlord]This one irritates me too. About 50% of the time I just say "frack it" and put it where it really ought to go, devil be damned.
You don't really say "frack," do you?!

or

You don't really say "frack", do you?!

[zero]

Why are you getting confused when a period occurs in "quotes?"

[Craig]

In the example that you give, I would say the second version is grammatically correct.

Welcome to the age of the internets. The traditional rules of grammar need to be updated.


Craig

[jimbrady]

Am I the only one who considers this a matter of punctuation, rather than grammar?