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Old 09-10-2014, 04:16 AM   #13
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Originally Posted by doubleshuffle View Post
I think there are two standards, at least in English (in German it has always been option 2) only, I think):


1)
"Some speech...

"Some more speech by same person...

"Last bit of speech by same person."


2)
"Some speech...

Some more speech by same person...

Last bit of speech by same person."


My impression is that 1) has become rarer.
I've not seen 2) personally, I'm a bit OCD on punctuation so I think I would have noticed it. But I don't read everything

Coincidentally more recent discussion on continued speech from this post forward ==>> e-Book Tools - a Word add-in

From what Hitch has posted there I get the impression that some contemporary authors use

"Some speech..."
"Some more speech by same person..."
"Last bit of speech by same person."

And from what Toxaris says that is common in Dutch.

BR

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