【词汇大师】国家标点日(1/2)

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你知道吗？9月24日，是美国National Punctuation Day（国家标点日）。
为了这个纪念日，这项活动的组织者号召读者以标点为题写haiku（俳句），其中一位读者写的俳句是这样的：
Are you Brit or Yank? Show me your quotation marks And I’ll tell you which.
TIPS
本篇听写只听写嘉宾的话，主持人的话不需要听写。听仔细些。
主持人的话① "Can you give us some hints that will make it easier for speakers and learners of English as a foreign language to better punctuate their sentences?"
HINTS
frustrates
'The Elements of Style"I picked punctuation because it's the thing about our language that frustrates me the most. I just don't understand why people can't get it right. It's not that difficult. You could buy a stylebook. 'The Elements of Style,' I think the pocket edition is ninety-four pages and that includes the index. If you read a page a day, in three months you'd be an expert."
"Well, here's one: In the United States, a comma and a period always go inside a closing quotation mark. In other parts of the world -- most prominently, in England -- they call the period a full stop. Sometimes the period and the comma are placed outside a quotation mark.