A bright future is possible

Bluesaga wrote: Geck0 wrote: The Wizard wrote: This is about to dissolve into talk about how the world sucks! Stop right hear and ponder this: prog exist and we all love it! That should be "here". n00b! That should be: That should be "here." Newbie!

Differences in British English and American English

In British English, when a quotation mark appears at the end of a sentence the full stop is usually placed after it. The matter is partly determined by the length of the enclosed material: the longer it is, more acceptable it is that the full stop should come first. Any full sentence enclosed within quotation marks will have its full stop before the final quotation mark.

In American English the full stop normally comes before the quotation mark. (This applies to commas and some other punctuation, also.)

Examples of typical usage:

• [British:] You say "tomAYto", I say "tomAHto".
• [American:] You say "tomAYto," I say "tomAHto."

An exception to the American rule occurs when the placing of the full stop inside the quote would lead to ambiguity, for example in describing commands to be typed into a computer:

• At the prompt type "ls -lad".

In the case above, giving the instruction:

• At the prompt type "ls -lad."

would result in an error, since the full stop has special significance in instructions typed into a computer.