Talk:Litigation Jackson

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"check your MLA, punctuation goes inside quotes"

...as per the American system. Rather strange that it's the Americans overruling what the English language should be. Although both edits were correct, the British system seems more logical, having punctuation outside quotes. The punctuation used is not relevant to what's being quoted, but to the structure of the sentance.

I do indeed realise this is not the place to be discussing such a topic and I have no doubt this comment will be promptly deleted. Just a little Google-reserched clearup there.

Actually, despite being American, I agree that the British system is more logical in this case, and even American English is picking up the "punctuation outside quotes" rule in some cases. However, officially, punctuation is still supposed to go inside quotes in American English - and this is an American cartoon. I sympathize, but sorry. --Jay 10:18, 12 Apr 2005 (MDT)

"this is an American cartoon" - I was going to add that in as a "fair enough" comment, but I kinda forgot to as I was deep in research - Id hate to have written all that and have been totally and humiliatingly wrong :-)