Timeline for Is it correct to say "I feel painful" to mean "I feel pain"?
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| Oct 13, 2016 at 13:10 | history | protected | oerkelens | ||
| Oct 13, 2016 at 13:03 | answer | added | Dan | timeline score: -2 | |
| Feb 17, 2015 at 4:00 | answer | added | Hot Licks | timeline score: 1 | |
| Dec 6, 2014 at 17:12 | history | edited | tchrist♦ |
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| Oct 21, 2012 at 13:17 | history | edited | RegDwigнt |
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| Nov 26, 2011 at 16:41 | answer | added | Rant | timeline score: 0 | |
| Mar 19, 2011 at 19:00 | vote | accept | brilliant | ||
| Mar 10, 2011 at 5:33 | comment | added | Jimi Oke | @brilliant: As for AAT's No, it is not correct English to say "I feel painful.", strictly speaking, there ought to be a comma after say. Otherwise, the punctuation is perfectly correct, as the period terminates the entire sentence. A British/International English writer, however, may be inclined to place the period after the quotation mark, not before, as in: No, it is not correct English to say "I feel painful". But I doubt such a writer would if they placed a comma after say: No, it is not correct English to say, "I feel painful." | |
| Mar 10, 2011 at 5:28 | history | edited | brilliant | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Mar 10, 2011 at 5:23 | comment | added | Jimi Oke | @brilliant: You're welcome. Here are a couple links: Purdue OWL, Quotation Marks. In American English, the comma and period always goes within the quotation marks, regardless of logic. In British English, however, this is not the case. More on that here. Also, for consistency's sake, as per my previous comment, I think you should just remove the comma after "I feel painful," | |
| Mar 10, 2011 at 0:57 | comment | added | Cerberus - Reinstate Monica | There are actually two schools, one that wants punctuation within quotes even though it isn't really part of the quote, and another that puts them outside. I believe the former school should mend its evil ways; but it still has some adherents. | |
| Mar 10, 2011 at 0:26 | comment | added | brilliant | @Jimi Oke: Jimi, please, take a look at the very first sentence in the answer provided here by AAT: No, it is not correct English to say "I feel painful." Is his quoting also wrong? | |
| Mar 10, 2011 at 0:16 | comment | added | brilliant | @Jimi Oke: WOW!!! That's amazing! Thank you. I've already edited my question. Do you have any link to some official resource on the web that states these rules of proper quoting? | |
| Mar 10, 2011 at 0:14 | history | edited | brilliant | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Mar 10, 2011 at 0:04 | comment | added | Jimi Oke | Because the final period within a pair of quotes terminates the entire sentence. If not, the quoted text should terminate with a comma. Thus, your title should be: (with comma overload) Is it correct to say, "I feel painful," to mean, "I feel pain"? or (without comma overload) Is it correct to say "I feel painful" to mean "I feel pain"? And you could always explain the specific usage within the body of question, e.g. no words after the last word in each quote, and so on. | |
| Mar 9, 2011 at 23:57 | vote | accept | brilliant | ||
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| Mar 9, 2011 at 23:55 | comment | added | brilliant | @Jimi Oke: "it really is incorrect to have a period in those quotes" - Why is it incorrect? | |
| Mar 9, 2011 at 23:53 | comment | added | Jimi Oke | ~brilliant, I changed meaning to to mean. Also, it really is incorrect to have a period in those quotes, but I retained them due to the way you phrased your question. Without the periods, both would still be taken as full sentences. They would only be considered as parts of a bigger sentence if followed by ellipses: "I feel painful...", "I feel pain..." | |
| Mar 9, 2011 at 23:51 | history | edited | Jimi Oke | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Mar 9, 2011 at 23:38 | answer | added | AAT | timeline score: 11 | |
| Mar 9, 2011 at 23:35 | history | asked | brilliant | CC BY-SA 2.5 |