In a message dated 2/13/2002 9:46:55 PM Central Standard Time, thanatos@dim.com writes:Maybe it would be good to also use "" to enclose s-sumti and The historical usage, since around the 17th century, has been to enclose s-sumti in quotes to refer to them, the unquoted for already refers to the thing iself, so needs no help. <Ah, I meant to be doing that. ;) If we can't refer in English to the l-sumti by quoting the s-sumti, then how else are we to do it?> See above: the word itself refers to its referent (naturally). <If I quote "mi" do I mean the word "mi" or the thing referred to by "mi" in the text?> The word, the referent of {mi} is mi or me. |