how good/bad is your punctuation?

Princess Ivy · 06-08-2005, 03:18 PM

how good or bad is your punctuation?
check it out http://eatsshootsandleaves.com/ESLquiz.html
believe it or not, i'm 92% a real stickler
hehe

Leto · 06-08-2005, 03:24 PM

75 %
Not too bad for someone who usually live by different punctuation rules.

Princess Ivy · 06-08-2005, 04:24 PM

mines only high cause i've been refreshing recently :biggrin:

Leto · 06-08-2005, 04:46 PM

Never a bad thing. BTW is their a typographic code available for UK or US on the Net ? Not only punctuation, but how to abbreviate, type titles and so on...

Princess Ivy · 06-08-2005, 06:49 PM

i'm sure there are several. i usualy work off sheets provided by my lecturer. i think i know where there is one, will check and give link :wink:

Leto · 06-08-2005, 06:51 PM

Thanks !

Princess Ivy · 06-08-2005, 06:54 PM

just checking around. as with most countries, its to each editor his own. i have a sheet of guidelines (as said, from my lecturer.) d'ya want me to e-mail it over?
as for punctuation, good english guide, or the one i'm currently reading, eats shoots and leaves by lynne truss. available from amazon.

Leto · 06-08-2005, 06:57 PM

Yes, please.
Here, the National printers (the ones who do the bank notes and the ID documents) have their code and each editors adapt from it.

Princess Ivy · 06-08-2005, 07:03 PM

i think its pretty standard world wide. only thing is with punctuation, to use the british guide rather than american. unless of course you're marketing to the states.

Leto · 06-08-2005, 07:14 PM

as it's for websites, I'll go for British. Thanks for the mail (though you've scanned upside down

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