Tim Murray    959048 Sun, 01 Nov 09 02:09 PM Would you punctuate "I wonder how it does that" with a period or a question mark? It seems clearly a statement, yet it would be expanded to "I wondered, 'How does it do that?'" Tim Murray Punctuation, Question Marks

	Pat Durkin    959049 Sun, 01 Nov 09 03:28 PM "Would you punctuate "I wonder how it does that" with a period or a question mark?" With a period. It is a statement. Pat Durkin Punctuation, Question Marks

	Donna Richoux    959050 Sun, 01 Nov 09 03:57 PM "Would you punctuate "I wonder how it does that" with a period or a question mark? It seems clearly a statement, yet it would be expanded to "I wondered, 'How does it do that?'"" When you restate a question in that indirect manner, it does not take a question mark. I asked him, "Where are you going?" I asked him where he was going. Best Donna Richoux Donna Richoux Punctuation, Question Marks

	Athel Cornish-Bowden    959059 Sun, 01 Nov 09 04:15 PM "Would you punctuate "I wonder how it does that" with a period or a question mark?" "With a period. It is a statement." What you say is right, but I must confess that I sometimes put a question mark where it doesn't strictly belong, as in this sentence from a paper currently in preparation: "The question therefore arises naturally of which one is best suited for modelling Rosen’s ideas on computability?". The question mark is clearly wrong, but it still seems natural, and it was only at a rather late stage that I decided to follow the rules and replace it with a full stop. athel Athel Cornish-Bowden Punctuation, Question Marks, Sentences

	Nick    959060 Sun, 01 Nov 09 04:19 PM "With a period. It is a statement." "What you say is right, but I must confess that I sometimes put a question mark where it doesn't strictly ... only at a rather late stage that I decided to follow the rules and replace it with a full stop." I'd replace the "of" with a colon, and have the question mark. Online waterways route planner: http://canalplan.org.uk development version: http://canalplan.eu Nick Punctuation, Question Marks, Colons

	Django Cat    959061 Sun, 01 Nov 09 04:35 PM "yet it would be expanded to "I wondered, 'How does it do that?'"" Why? DC Django Cat

	Mark Brader    959204 Sun, 01 Nov 09 08:18 PM "Would you punctuate "I wonder how it does that" with a period or a question mark?" At one time I would have been guided by its grammatical form as a statement, and used a period. Today I consider that a question mark is correct if *either* the sense or the grammatical form implies a question, and would use one. Mark Brader, Toronto "I may be ranting, but I'm right!" (Email Removed) Wojeck: Out of the Fire Mark Brader Punctuation, Question Marks

	Evan Kirshenbaum    959235 Sun, 01 Nov 09 09:02 PM "With a period. It is a statement." "What you say is right, but I must confess that I sometimes put a question mark where it doesn't strictly ... only at a rather late stage that I decided to follow the rules and replace it with a full stop." Do you pronounce it differently than you would pronounce The question therefore arises naturally of 'Which one is best suited for modelling Rosen's ideas on computability?' Evan Kirshenbaum + HP Laboratories >The bathwater, in this case, does 1501 Page Mill Road, 1U, MS 1141 >not appear to ever have containedPalo Alto, CA 94304 >any baby. (Email Removed) > ronniecat (650)857-7572 http://www.kirshenbaum.net/ Evan Kirshenbaum Punctuation, Question Marks

	Peter Moylan    959261 Sun, 01 Nov 09 09:37 PM I've just realised that I never see anything that Athel wrote unless someone else quotes him. This makes me suspect that I'm missing other aue traffic. My junk mail filters reject only two domains, plus anything where the "From" field contains the substring ".cn". That shouldn't exclude Athel. Can anyone guess what is happening? I'm using Giganews. Peter Moylan, Newcastle, NSW, Australia. http://www.pmoylan.org For an e-mail address, see my web page. Peter Moylan