- From: Karl Dubost <karl@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 09:50:39 +0900
Le 25 avr. 2007 ? 08:19, Elliotte Harold a ?crit :
> Alexey Feldgendler wrote:
>
>> In Western typography, there is already a tradition to mark up
>> irony with quotation marks:
>> Yeah, George W. Bush has been such a ?great? president.
>
> There's an even stronger tradition to mark quotes with quotation
> marks, and yet we have the q element.
Because quote is useful not because of his punctuation but because of
the possibility to give the reference of the quote.
<p>
<cite>Raymond Queneau</cite> said:
"<q xml:lang="fr"
id="ironie"
cite="http://www.evene.fr/celebre/biographie/raymond-
queneau-551.php?citations">
Toute forme de langage devrait ?tre reconnue et libre
d'exister sans ironie.
</q>"
</p>
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