Re: MLA on electronic sources

heh...thanks for the correction. I did indeed mean angle bracket, but I
honestly have never heard it called that.

Jim

Tim O'Connor wrote:

> 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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