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> Full agreement here. There've been a couple years so far that I've been with you in the civil disobedience. As a corollary, I don't consider quoted punctuation to affect the outside sentence, even if the effect might be to effect a hysteria in my professors. A period in the end of a quote ends the sentence in the quote, but not the sentence the quote is in.
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> (Examples)
> "I love to go the beach!", she said.
> "Really?", he said, "I prefer to defy grammar conventions.".
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> Maybe it's inelegant, but its logic is appealing to me. Overexplicit punctuation seems better than underpunctuation, although if we adopt that standard, then we may witness yet worse confusions. The commas in the example may be screwed up.
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> Ga"The commas, up which in the example may be screwed"be

Somebody said, "If the law is wrong, and it offends you, you are compelled to break it."

Don't look at me. I'm just quoting.
Howard