Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 20:35:45 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert), roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert), freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Punctuation conventions (was: cvs commit: Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20000605202431.04a0f100@localhost> In-Reply-To: <200006060026.RAA01410@usr05.primenet.com> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20000602165302.04939e50@localhost>
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At 06:26 PM 6/5/2000, Terry Lambert wrote: >"WiReD" magazine is not very authoritative. Their style guide is quite good and covers areas that references written before the start of the "Digital Age" do not address. I think that if you read it (check any bookstore there in the Bay Area) you'll gain respect for it. >> http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201339854/ref=sim_books/002-9186126-2223249 > >I would be more likely to accept this as a source, if it in fact >has anything to say on the subject. Realize, however, that AP >is likely to treat text as source code for typesetting, as opposed >to an end in itself. Going to http://wire.ap.org/ confirms that >their wire format uses single spaces following periods. It's perfectly legitimate to treat text as source code for typesetting. At one time, that was all it was for! >> http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0226103897/wedwordcom/002-9186126-2223249 > >My copy of the Chicago Manual of Style shows two spaces following >periods. How old is your copy? >My problem with taking an MBA book to be authoritative is that >such a book is unlikely to be authoritative on written English. >I'd be more willing to accept the authority of an English >professor on English. MBA professors will undoubtedly know >more about business that English professors, but we are not >disucssing business, we are discussing English. I was under the impression that we were discussing business English. >> Also, here are some links to style guides around the Web, all >> of which say that it is desirable to use one space after a period >> that ends a sentence. (These are only the results of a brief search; >> I'm sure there are many more.) >> >> http://webster.commnet.edu/apa/apa_spacing.htm > >Psychologists, not English professors. The APA Style Guide is widely respected as a guide for scholarly papers in EVERY field of study -- including English. It is the gold standard for academics everywhere. It mandates a single space after all punctuation with the exception of a colon used in a ratio. >> http://www.the-efa.org/news/gramglean.html#onespace > >This one actually supports two spaces. It calls the use >of one space "a case of collective cultural amnesia". 8-). Reread this piece carefully. You'll see that she attributes a lack of knowledge of WHY the change in conventions has occurred to "a case of collective cultural amnesia." She approves of the shift to one space. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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