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June 16, 2004
combustive question mark
i was having some difficulties with question marks in my big book which i am editing at work. my problem consists of the fact that they exist in a reference text telling you the dates of a serial title that a particular repository is carrying in their archives.
you should be exact, i am querulous.
director boss explained to me though about this one serial's dates listed like this, '1914-1941?' which was published in shanghai.
see, he instructs, shanghai is very close to japan and after the bombings at pearl harbor, this serial might have stopped being produced suddenly with no warning. people were a little more concerned with the japanese invasion and war. but maybe it's not positive when exactly it ended because 1942 or 43 issues could have gotten blown up in their entirety along with the legs and arms and bits of middle squishiness of the printer's devil, you see, michele? you see?
i see now, i said, question marks indicate fear.
Posted by michele at June 16, 2004 03:49 PM
Comments
Posted by: jason S at June 17, 2004 07:40 PM
Posted by: michele at June 18, 2004 09:10 AM
Isn’t that when you get on WorldCat or FirstSearch or LexusNexus, or one of those other FancyAcademic two-words-in-one search engines to see if you can find issues from 1942 or 1943? Maybe a record of issues? Call the particular repository? This guys sounds like a hack.
Posted by: christine at June 23, 2004 09:41 AM
Posted by: michele at June 23, 2004 10:36 AM