(j3.2006) (SC22WG5.5602) Revised ballot on draft Corrigendum 4

[Robert Corbett]

On 12/11/15 02:11, John Reid wrote:
>
>
> Robert Corbett wrote:
>> On 12/10/15 03:45, John Reid wrote:
>>> In the first line of NOTE 9.64a, replace "denotation"; with
>>> "denotation;".
>>> [The version in N2088 is as approved by WG5 (see N2062 and N2080). Van
>>> wants to apply the US rule, which conflicts with ISO practice. See, for
>>> example, 23:3 in J3/10-007r1.]
>>>
>> Why is the word "denotation" in quotation marks in this context?  It does
>> not seem appropriate.  In American English, the use quotation marks in a
>> such a context usually indicates that the word or phrase within the
>> quotation marks is not what it seems.
>
> I think they are correct here because we are defining the word
> "denotation". Here, for example, is a sentence from
>
>       http://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/quotes.asp
>
> A "composition" is a creative, journalistic, or scholarly enterprise
> that is whole, complex, a thing unto itself. This includes books,
> movies, plays, TV shows, newspapers, magazines, websites, music albums,
> operas, musical theater, paintings, sculptures, and other works of art.

I think the author intended the quoted term in the quoted text in the sense

*/Rule 4a./* Quotation marks are often used with technical terms, terms used in 
an unusual way, or other expressions that vary from standard usage.

*/Examples:/*
/It's an oil-extraction method known as "fracking."
He did some "experimenting" in his college days.
I had a visit from my "friend" the tax man./

//I do not think the same sense applies to the new note.  If the quoted
term falls under the clause "that vary from standard usage", then a
definition outside of the note should be given.

Definitions of terms appear throughout the standard.  I found none
that puts the defined term in quotation marks.

Robert Corbett

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