Wednesday, September 24, 2025

Is a period at the end of a sentence supposed to go inside quotes?

It probably doesn't matter, but I like to be grammatically correct.

Periods and exclamation points are called "a full stop."  

American English

  • Periods and commas always go inside the quotation marks, even if they're not part of the quoted material.

    • Example: She said, "I'm ready to go."

    • Example: I like the word "yes," but not "no."

  • Question marks and exclamation points go inside the quotation marks if they belong to the quoted material, but outside if they belong to the whole sentence.

    • Inside: He asked, "Are you coming?"

    • Outside: Did she really say "I'm not interested"?


British English

  • Punctuation goes inside the quotation marks only if it's part of the original quote. Otherwise, it stays outside.

    • Example: She said, "I'm ready to go".

    • Example: I like the word "yes", but not "no".

    • Example: Did she really say "I'm not interested"?



I think that I like the British way.

It seems to me that the above example ...
  • She said, "I'm ready to go".

Should have the period inside the quotes.





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Sunday, March 9, 2025

Why Do Americans Call This a Biscuit?

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Hl5drxqF09k

Bake something until it is completely dry and it can last for years.  Sometimes decades.  Some soldiers ate hardtack left over from previous wars.

Sea biscuits or hardtack led to the modern cracker.

Tuesday, September 24, 2024

This makes NO SENSE!🎁

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/KVZxM7dpk70

It is hard to see, but he turns the second box 90 degrees before removing the lid.  If the boxes are not perfect cubes, he might be able to fit the first box in the second box.  I don't think the lid would close all the way, but it doesn't have to.  It creates the illusion that the smaller box contains the larger one.

Saturday, May 4, 2024

Rare Golden Ship Galaga Glitch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_58poXHxOg&t=877s

The golden ship reemerges when the game switches back to the second player.


The enemy ship switched to the wrong characters for that sprite but kept the same color palette.  If we assume that ship type is a single byte value, then that byte was somehow overwritten with a bad value, hypothetically a zero or a one which could be the value for the player ship.  Errors like this could be caused by a memory overflow where a value was written outside the bounds of a table or the limited stack memory was exceeded.

I learned that if Player 1 exceeds 999,999 points, it will not display the millions in the score.  It is not clear if the player's score still counts as being over a million, or if it goes back to zero.  However, the second player does not have this problem and his score can reach 8 digits.