Oh gods, yes! It's bad enough that Stargate has to have all other cultures speak English because of the constraints of an hour-long show, but do they have to throw so many colloquialisms in there? English speakers on the other side of Earth might not understand some, and yet off-worlders do?
Boxing Day, yes! Or Guy Fawkes. Or Canadian versus American Thanksgiving. I just learned that New Zealanders celebrate Easter Monday in a big way--everything's closed.
We'll do the big "punctuation with quotation marks" post, but in short, periods, commas and semicolons always go inside quotation marks in American grammar--even for titles and emphasis words. The parentheses question is a good one, too, that we should do. In the example above, that is a complete sentence inside the parentheses, so the period goes inside. For a parenthetical aside within another sentence, punctuate the sentence itself.
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Boxing Day, yes! Or Guy Fawkes. Or Canadian versus American Thanksgiving. I just learned that New Zealanders celebrate Easter Monday in a big way--everything's closed.
We'll do the big "punctuation with quotation marks" post, but in short, periods, commas and semicolons always go inside quotation marks in American grammar--even for titles and emphasis words. The parentheses question is a good one, too, that we should do. In the example above, that is a complete sentence inside the parentheses, so the period goes inside. For a parenthetical aside within another sentence, punctuate the sentence itself.