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Don't the British still use "my" style of punctuation?
If the British were to put the period inside the quotes they'd never get to the close quote since they call the period a full stop.
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A full stop? It must be tough to read any British authors when you have to stop reading after the first sentence! 
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earlier in this thread I was going to add a post saying that this issue has bothered me for "donkey's years."
no, that doesn't look right; let me try again: earlier in this thread I was going to add a post saying that this issue has bothered me for "donkey's years."
well d'oh!. I just cut and pasted that simple sentence into a more complex one, without changing a bloody(!) thing.
here, I'll just quote myself; that should help: "earlier in this thread I was going to add a post saying that this issue has bothered me for "donkey's years."". there.
now that was just silly; here: earlier in this thread I was going to add a post saying "this issue has bothered me for "donkey's years".".
anyway, like I was saying (typing -- no, keyboarding -- is what i *really mean to say.. er.. keyboard), "earlier in this thread I was going to add a post...". [notice how I deftly sidestepped putting "saying" in there again]? but, in the event, I resisted, fearing that it would be perceived that I didn't know that of which I spoke [drat!]!
so, having waited a bit, I -- the effable I, that is, -- feel satisdicted.
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"Earlier in this thread I was going to add a post saying that this issue has bothered me for 'donkey's years.' "
[American]
'Earlier in this thread I was going to add a post saying
that this issue has bothered me for "donkey's years." '
[British]
...at least that's my understanding of differences between American and British punctuation conventions. Please do correct me here if I'm in error.
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Don't completely understand the "full stop" bit - does that mean it would be:
'Earlier in this thread I was going to add a post saying that this issue has bothered me for "donkey's years" '.
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>Please do correct me here if I'm in error.
Shirley, you guessed.
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Goodness gracious, I do believe you have baited a wit.
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Colin's colon coalition!
"Colin's colon coalition" will get a colonoscopy around here. :)
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I’m a little late on this, but I was more or less snowed in yesterday. It was lovely and I slept very well after all my shoveling, snow blowing and moving-college-man-back-to-his-dorming.
Kierkegaard composed the phrase, "truth is subjectivity".
With the comma, seems correct or is at least clearer.
"truth is subjectivity" is not a sentence in itself and is not worthy of its own period.
That's the Owlbow rule anyhow and it makes the meaning of your sentence more clear and (no comma needed after an and) that's what's important isn't it? (Did that sound too arrogant?) Ah, you know what I mean.
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>"truth is subjectivity" is not a sentence in itself and is not worthy of its own period.
Not so. It is sentence. So is the preceding sentence. Subject, verb, object, except in the case of the verb to be I think they call it something other than object.
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