Re: MLA on electronic sources

On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 10:35:14AM -0400, Jim Rovira wrote:

> Cecilia's post was a pretty good reply, I think. Some guides I've seen
> also ask you to add the date of publication (of the internet article) at
> the end of the citation in parentheses, and the date visited (in the
> location Cecilia said) in carrots.

As a longtime vegetarian, I applaud your post, but as someone who
spends entirely too much time concentrating on nitpicky details of
language (and especially given that this topic has "MLA" in the
subject line), I feel compelled to point out that the little thing you
are mentioning is spelled "caret" (while "carrot" is the vegetable
favored by Bugs Bunny), and looks like this:

        ^

(This mark has also been called a "circumflex.")

On the other hand, I vaguely suspect that the punctuation mark you
mean is, instead, an angle bracket:

        <visited October 25, 2002>

Angle brackets are known under other names, as I recall, but I haven't
a dictionary handy. Way back in the old days, I vaguely recall double
brackets being used in Europe to indicate quotation marks:

        The private detective spat and said, <<Don't lie to me>>
        in a menacing whisper.

Though I have no books at hand to check this, and I could be completely
wrong yet again; please, anyone who has better information, correct me!

Cheers,

--tim

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