Peter T. Daniels wrote:
> Barb Knox wrote:
>> In article <1166200279.810244.244340@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>> "Prisoner at War" <prisoner_at_war@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>>> Flying Tortoise wrote:
>> [snip]
>>> And what do you do to show that you're quoting a quote? Like, use
>>> "double" quotations marks (use them twice)?
>> One British convention (Oxford, IIRC) used single-quotes for the
>> outermost quotation, double-quotes for a quoted quotation,
triple-quotes
>> for the next level, etc.
>>
>> E.g., 'I told him, ''Never say '''Bugger!''' in polite company.'' '
>
> Now that, I have never seen!
>
I believe this is the convention followed by John Barth in his short
story Menelaiad in his book "Lost in the Funhouse".
In this story the convention is taken to seven layers, with a lot of
jumping back up from level 7 to level 3 etc.
Invented example, annotated with levels:
...came out of the woods'''', said he.''' '' '. Peter paused and
4444444444444444444444444 3333333333 2 1 00000000000000000
continued: ' ''John had now told his story...
00000000000 1 222222222222222222222222222
If I remember correctly, he then starts to place some of these quotation
marks in parentheses, so that you are unsure of which level you are at.
Reminiscent of Lisp programming.
--Arne
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