Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 22:40:10 +1200 From: Craig Harding <crh@outpost.co.nz> To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Punctuation conventions (was: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/datfiles fortunes) Message-ID: <39363D8A.FC43322A@outpost.co.nz> References: <20000528135144.B15565@wantadilla.lemis.com> <200005311543.BAA03923@dungeon.home> <20000601095056.D16657@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20000601111501.A11561@sophos.com>
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Mark Blackman wrote: > I've not done any text analysis of e-mails to discern empirical > usage patterns, however a quick poll of five of my British colleagues > (I'm a "colonial") suggests that in Britain, two spaces is > the rule taught in English and typing classes. > > I wouldn't be surprised to discover that a number of people > writing e-mails these days a) completely ignore their teachers > or b) never took any classes. I did one term of typing in Form 3 (erm, age 13), where I was taught to use two spaces after a terminating fullstop. When I started to use computers in Form 4, I was able to continue to touchtype and use everything I'd learnt the previous year - except for the two space rule, which I ignored. (oh, and the correct finger to use on C). -- C. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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