Thread:AuburnAutumn/@comment-16811522-20130912142743/@comment-16811522-20130912152046

AuburnAutumn wrote: I'm from Eastern Europe. English is my second language.

To me if it's suppose to be dialog, it makes sense for a comma or a period to be before the quotation mark, because it's all sentences, even the one-word sentences like "No!" or "Yeah."

But when it's not dialog, it just looks so stupid to have a comma or a period before the quotation mark, cuz those aren't sentences, they're titles, non-dialog titles. By ending the titles with a ," or ." you make it look like the comma and the period are either part of the titles, or the titles are being spoken in dialog. If neither is the case, then don't write them like that. I don't agree with the British way of doing it, and my mind is not like theirs. To me, the American English way is correct, and I don't see how the British people can view their way as right. And the grammarian schoolteacher said in her book (English Grammar for Dummies) that even if it doesn't make sense, you should follow it. I think that if you want to use the American language correctly in writing, you just have to use it.