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Tag Archives: dubbele punt

Habits such as: colons before lists

Dutch typography regularly seems to use a superfluous colon to introduce a list of items – sometimes even a ‘list’ of one!

Posted byMike WilkinsonJune 16, 2021June 16, 2021Posted inAdvanced, Grammar, PunctuationTags:dubbele punt, dunglish, engelsLeave a comment on Habits such as: colons before lists

English as she is spoken

The Dutch are great communicators who get their message across well in spoken English. But actually putting the spoken word on paper is a pig with a different snout altogether.

Posted byMike WilkinsonAugust 25, 2020September 24, 2020Posted inAdvanced, Punctuation, StyleTags:aanhalingstekens, contractievormen, dubbele punt, dunglish, eens, engels, ja, komma, niet waar, nouLeave a comment on English as she is spoken

Arithmetic

Hold on, that’s the same in all languages… isn’t it?

Posted byMike WilkinsonAugust 11, 2020August 11, 2020Posted inAdvanced, PunctuationTags:decimale punt, dubbele punt, dunglish, engels, plusminusLeave a comment on Arithmetic

Comma splices

Separate sentences shouldn’t be glued together with commas, this is poor style.

Posted byMike WilkinsonJuly 20, 2020July 23, 2020Posted inAdvanced, Grammar, PunctuationTags:dubbele punt, dunglish, engels, komma, puntkommaLeave a comment on Comma splices

…he said (ten lines later).

Open quotes. Someone’s talking. Who? For a while. OK: who? More but from whom? Finally: close quotes at the end of the paragraph and we learn who said it.

Posted byMike WilkinsonMay 31, 2020June 10, 2020Posted inAdvanced, StyleTags:citeren, dubbele punt, dunglish, engelsLeave a comment on …he said (ten lines later).

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