[Lnc-business] Email Ballot 2014-12: December LNC Session

[Joshua Katz]

Both are acceptable, although most manuals prefer the inside approach for
quotes and parentheses. I agree that it looks wrong, but I think it also
looks untidy the other way.
On Jul 31, 2014 3:07 AM, "Alicia Mattson" <agmattson at gmail.com> wrote:

> I really doubt that the minor wording tweaks would have made any
> difference to anyone's willingness to cosponsor this motion.  But for
> simplicity, since Nick was willing to sponsor the final version, I just put
> it out under his name.  That way it removes any question of who
> co-sponsored which version and if they had to reaffirm their co-sponsorship.
>
> But then I did take the liberty of secretary-ing it.  I changed "a" to
> "an."  (Am I the only person that thinks it just looks wrong to put the
> sentence-ending period inside the quote marks?  I think that's the
> technically correct method, but I don't like it.)
>
> I also spelled out December rather than abbreviating it as "Dec".  I
> wouldn't do that if I imagined that anyone would object.  If you do object,
> let me know, but I will warn you that I reserve the right to deduct points
> for my trouble of re-issuing the email ballot.  :-)
>
> -Alicia
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 11:52 PM, Alicia Mattson <agmattson at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> We have an electronic mail ballot.
>>
>>
>> *Votes are due to the LNC-Business list by August 9, 2014 at 11:59:59pm
>> Pacific time. *
>> *Sponsor:*  Nick Sarwark
>>
>> *Motion:*  Schedule an LNC session for the weekend of December 13-14,
>> 2014 in the New Orleans, LA metropolitan area.
>>
>> Alicia Mattson
>> LNC Secretary
>>
>>
>
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