Subj : Re: Singing and punctuation markss
To   : Paul Quinn
From : alexander koryagin
Date : Fri Jul 06 2018 22:01:02

From: alexander koryagin <koryagin@newmail.ru>

Hi, Paul Quinn!
I read your message from  31.07.2014 08:59
about Singing and punctuation markss.

  ak>> In my translation I have these lines (here a teacher of
  ak>> music (Paul knows him ;-) is checking the boy's faculty for
  ak>> music):
  PQ>
  PQ> You are lucky I have the time for this, at this time.  This is
  PQ> a simple 'vote', Alexander.  :)
  PQ>
  PQ> (My wife is seriously unwell, and I have little time for idle
  PQ> chit-chat.)

I wish her to be well.

  ak>> -----Beginning of the citation-----
  PQ> [ ...chomp... ]
  ak>> I was told by one guy that the words of the song should be
  ak>> taken in quotation marks. Like this:
  PQ>
  ak>>      Maxim started, and probably, he was not very good:
  PQ>
  ak>>                  "Bonfire is barely glowing
  ak>>                  And darkness has covered the camp." etc
  PQ>
  ak>> Should I do it or the indentation of the song's words is
  ak>> enough?
  PQ>
  PQ> I vote for just indentation.  Keep it simple, amigo.

I think so too.

Bye, Paul!
Alexander Koryagin
fido7.english-tutor 2014
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