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oojason said:

TV’s Frink said:

oojason said:

TV’s Frink said:

oojason said:

Proper punctuation?

No mate, the punctuation is fine.

Look again.

Still fine, mate.

First sentence.

Wow, took me a couple seconds, but it ain’t that hard. Punctuation’s fine.

Shouldn’t there be a question mark somewhere?

JEDIT: Those first two lines must not end with a period, but a comma.

That’s what I said.

Or maybe not?

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/4953/position-of-question-mark-when-sentence-doesnt-end-with-question

The sentence in the original question ends with a subordinate clause that does not, by itself, ask a question (“within which we can leverage our existing knowledge”). This is modifying a noun phrase that is part of the question (“set of simple computational rules”). Therefore, this subordinate clause is part of the original question, and should end with a question mark.

Putting all of this together, I would punctuate the sentence like this:

“The question nagging me is, To what extent can we encapsulate all what we observe in nature into a set of simple computational rules, within which we can leverage our existing knowledge?”

yhwx said:

Or maybe not?

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/4953/position-of-question-mark-when-sentence-doesnt-end-with-question

The sentence in the original question ends with a subordinate clause that does not, by itself, ask a question (“within which we can leverage our existing knowledge”). This is modifying a noun phrase that is part of the question (“set of simple computational rules”). Therefore, this subordinate clause is part of the original question, and should end with a question mark.

Putting all of this together, I would punctuate the sentence like this:

“The question nagging me is, To what extent can we encapsulate all what we observe in nature into a set of simple computational rules, within which we can leverage our existing knowledge?”

No, mate.

I’m not sure why everybody has such strong feelings about the punctuation on that sign.

yhwx said:

I’m not sure why everybody has such strong feelings about the punctuation on that sign.

It’s like a statement is being made.

No issue about a question mark. I thought semicolons would be better, but maybe doesn’t matter.

Apparently it’s not asking anything, just stating that “what” has four letters, “sometimes” has nine, and “never” has five. Little bit of a disappointment.

JEDIT: Ninja’d.

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