Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 18:25:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Adam <bsdx@looksharp.net> To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Punctuation conventions Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006011820370.34554-100000@turtle.looksharp.net> In-Reply-To: <8h6k9a$6ke$1@bigeye.mips.inka.de>
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On 1 Jun 2000, Christian Weisgerber wrote: >Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> wrote: > >> Speaking as a non native english speaker, I must say that I learned in the >> FreeBSD mailing-lists that two spaces were required at the end of a >> sentence... > >The block fill functions of some editors as well as fmt(1) give it >away, too. > >> I'll certainly try to remember this in my future emails. > >I trust you already noticed that English doesn't share the French >habit of putting a space before '?' and '!'? > >Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de Since this is -chat, what the hey... One thing I find annoying is people who put a . before ?'s, could this be a convention or just bad typing? Something like Blah blah blah blah blah.? I think I've only seen it on irc... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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