Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 10:43:57 -0500 From: "Michael C. Wu" <keichii@peorth.iteration.net> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Punctuation conventions (was: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/datfiles fortunes) Message-ID: <20000602104357.A17923@peorth.iteration.net> In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20000601210710.008b76b0@mail85.pair.com>; from adam@whizkidtech.net on Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 09:07:10PM -0500 References: <4.3.2.7.2.20000601162717.04482370@localhost> <FCEELIAEIIECDGKKJLMIKECDCAAA.troy@picus.com> <20000601111501.A11561@sophos.com> <FCEELIAEIIECDGKKJLMIKECDCAAA.troy@picus.com> <20000601141807.A40162@keltia.freenix.fr> <4.3.2.7.2.20000601162717.04482370@localhost> <20000602090744.Q20158@wantadilla.lemis.com> <3.0.6.32.20000601210710.008b76b0@mail85.pair.com>
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On Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 09:07:10PM -0500, G. Adam Stanislav scribbled: | At 09:07 02-06-2000 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: | >> That convention dates back to the time of hand-set type and has, of late, | >> been abandoned. One space is now not only acceptable but preferred in | >> business correspondence. | > | >Do you have any documentation to back this up? | | I have stayed out of this discussion (after all, I am not a native English | speaker, and we certainly do not use two spaces in Slovak). | | I was quite surprised about the double spacing when I came to America. I do | recall having read somewhere several years ago that, indeed, one space was | preferred now. I do not remember where I read it (*maybe* Writer's | Digest?), I just remember having read it, and being happy about it (since | it allowed me to go back to the way I used to do back home). Singapore and Hong Kong follows British conventions. Taiwan, Japan, and the Philippines follows American conventions. China does its own thing. I have correspondence from all of the above countries and they all use 2 space before the period. Our teachers stressed 2 spaces to death when I learned English. (At various stages of my life, I learned English from many different nationals when i switched schools. Singapore -> Philippines -> British -> Australia -> Canadia -> South Africa -> United States) None of the above mentioned teachers ever told me that "one space before the period" was acceptable and stressed two spaces. -- +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | keichii@peorth.iteration.net | | keichii@bsdconspiracy.net - Yes, this is a conspiracy. | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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