| Apakah terjemahan yang tepat bagi ayat berikut: The placement of terminal punchtuation in a sentence ending with two or more sets of closing quotation marks follows a principle similar to that governing such placement in a sentence ending with a single set of quotation marks. Question marks ending the element to which such terminal punctuation belongs. In the example above, the exclamation point belongs to the speech of the Mad Hatter and therefore is placed wihtin the closing (single) quotation mark ending that speech. Had the exclamation point belonged to the speech quoted by the Mad Hatter, it would belong inside the first set of quotation marks: "I eat what i see!" ' " Had it belonged to Henry's speech, it should have gone just before Henry's closing quotation mark: "I eat what i see" ' !" And finally, had it belonged to the narrator quoting Henry quoting all the rest, it should have been placed outside all of the closing quotation marks: "I eat what i see" ' " ! A period --and, for mutliple quotations ending before the end of the including sentence, a comma--is, by convention quotation marks: "I eat what I see." ' " | Untuk makluman, pertanyaan puan di luar skop perkhidmatan kami. Khidmat Nasihat Bahasa sedia membantu pengguna menangani masalah yang berkaitan dengan ejaan Rumi dan Jawi, istilah, laras bahasa dan tatabahasa. | Lain-lain | 12.03.2012 |
| Apakah perkataan atau istilah yang sesuai dalam Bahasa Malaysia bagi menggantikan perkataan 'quote' atau 'quotation'? Contoh ayat: 'Quote of the month' atau 'Quotation on creativity and innovation' | Tuan/puan dinasihatikan untuk majukan persoalan ini kepada Persatuan Penterjemah Malaysia untuk mendapat jawapan yang lebih tepat. Walau bagaimanapun, pada pandangan kami istilah yang bagi padanan tersebut ialah "petikan". | Penyemakan dan penterjemahan | 27.05.2015 |
| Apakah terjemahan yang betul bagi ayat berikut: Quoted words, phrases, and sentences run into the text are enclosed in double quotation marks. (Note that in the fields of linguistics and philosophy single marks are used in certain contexts to enclose individual words or letters; ) Single quotation marks enclose quotations within quotations; double marks, quotations within these; and so on: "Don't be absurd!" said Henry. "To say that 'I mean what I say' is the same as 'I say what I mean' is to be as confused as Alice at the Mad Hatter's tea party. You remember what the Hatter said to her: 'Not the same thing a bit! Why you might just as well say that "I see what I eat" is the same thing as "I eat what I see" ! ' " British practice i often, though not always, the reverse: single marks are used first, then double, and so on. | Untuk makluman, pertanyaan puan di luar skop perkhidmatan kami. Khidmat Nasihat Bahasa sedia membantu pengguna menangani masalah yang berkaitan dengan ejaan Rumi dan Jawi, istilah, laras bahasa dan tatabahasa. | Lain-lain | 12.03.2012 |