[QUOTE=thebig33tuna,Oct 8 2010, 10:02 AM]I moved the quotation mark outside of the period after "fear."

 

It is my understanding that quotations should always go outside any punctuation. However, as is always the case, I could be wrong.

A quick internet source:
http://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/quotes.asp

 

[QUOTE=thebig33tuna,Oct 8 2010, 10:17 AM]It is my understanding that quotations should always go outside any punctuation.

 

All he wanted was to be dashed. It's the least you could do.

 

that guy in the scooter was a win!!!!

 

In the USA and Canada, yes (usually). In other English speaking countries, no.

In the USA, the standard style is called American style, typesetters' rules, or printers' rules, where commas and periods are almost always placed inside closing quotation marks. This style of punctuation is common in USA and Canada (also commonly used in U.K. fiction and publications).

The other standard style, called British style or logical punctuation, is to include within quotation marks only those punctuation marks that appeared in the quoted material, but otherwise to place punctuation outside the closing quotation marks.

IMO, magician used quotations the correct way (logical). I just think that some retard couldn't get it right and made up their own way of using quotes, and then some retarded "English Teachers Association" adopeted that method here in the USA.

 

might have not been irony, might have been a room full of japanese.

... and that scooter