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eppur_se_muova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-23-10 02:09 PM
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What's this I hear about a "Pledge to Screw America" ?
What? :shrug: Did I get something wrong?
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RUMMYisFROSTED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-23-10 02:14 PM
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1. Yes.
Your "?" is outside the parentheses.

Otherwise, lookin' good.
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HopeHoops Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-23-10 02:17 PM
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3. No, in that case it SHOULD be outside.
And those are quotes, not parentheses. Still, if it were a quote from a speaker asking a question, then the question mark would be inside the quotation marks. In this case it is a question with quotation marks setting apart a specific title of a document, so the punctuation is specific to the sentence as a whole, not to the quoted title.
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RUMMYisFROSTED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-23-10 02:22 PM
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4. Yes, quotation marks.

Duh.
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Barack_America Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-23-10 02:25 PM
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5. I believe you're looking for an exclamation mark within the parentheses...
...for there is surely no doubt about what the "pledge" would do.
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RUMMYisFROSTED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-23-10 02:28 PM
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6. No parentheses.
I fucked up.
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SpiralHawk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-23-10 02:15 PM
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2. You heard right.
Republicons officially pledged to bamboozle the American people and then wreck the bejabbers out of everything decent in order to line the pockets of their fatcat RepubliCronies.

As usual.
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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-23-10 02:34 PM
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7. Yes
Edited on Thu Sep-23-10 02:34 PM by gratuitous
The Republican program is properly known as the "Plague on America." Fittingly, they introduced their latest scheme at a hardware store, in the screw section.
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