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From Wikipedia's "grammar" article: "Outside linguistics, the term grammar is often used in a rather different sense. In some respects, it may be used more bro
by mrob 8y ago
From Wikipedia's "grammar" article:
"Outside linguistics, the term grammar is often used in a rather different sense. In some respects, it may be used more broadly, including rules of spelling and punctuation, which linguists would not typically consider to form part of grammar, but rather as a part of orthography, the set of conventions used for writing a language."
In common usage, punctuation is often considered part of grammar. This matches well with the computer science meaning of grammar (rules for parsing), because punctuation can change the meaning of a sentence.
- acabal 8y agoOf course. We do not change punctuation, with a few exceptions for some short-lived archaic constructs like comma-emdash. We do change from single-quoted British style to double-quoted American style, but I think most everyone would agree that that is merely a presentational change that does not change the actual grammar of a sentence. (And that in and of itself was a very common thing for editors to do going back hundreds of years too!)
- jjgreen 8y agoThat seems an odd thing to want to change. Do you also move proximal punctuation inside the quotes, AE-style?