From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jun 1 3:53:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from queasy.outpost.co.nz (outpost2.inspire.net.nz [203.96.157.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CD7AB37B851 for ; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 03:53:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from crh@outpost.co.nz) Received: (qmail 40261 invoked from network); 1 Jun 2000 10:53:41 -0000 Received: from outpost5.inspire.net.nz (HELO outpost.co.nz) (203.96.157.29) by queasy.outpost.co.nz with SMTP; 1 Jun 2000 10:53:41 -0000 Message-ID: <39363D8A.FC43322A@outpost.co.nz> Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 22:40:10 +1200 From: Craig Harding Organization: Outpost Digital Media Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Punctuation conventions (was: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/datfiles fortunes) References: <20000528135144.B15565@wantadilla.lemis.com> <200005311543.BAA03923@dungeon.home> <20000601095056.D16657@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20000601111501.A11561@sophos.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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