From owner-freebsd-chat Wed May 31 8:43: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smople.thehub.com.au (smople.thehub.com.au [203.143.240.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A95137B5AA; Wed, 31 May 2000 08:43:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mckay@thehub.com.au) Received: from dungeon.home (bne72.thehub.com.au [203.17.162.72]) by smople.thehub.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id BAA83173; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 01:42:56 +1000 (EST) Received: from dungeon.home (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dungeon.home (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA03923; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 01:43:17 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from mckay@dungeon.home) Message-Id: <200005311543.BAA03923@dungeon.home> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 1999-10-15 To: Greg Lehey Cc: Tim Vanderhoek , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.org, mckay@thehub.com.au Subject: Re: Punctuation conventions (was: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/datfiles fortunes) In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 28 May 2000 13:51:45 +0930." <20000528135144.B15565@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 01:43:17 +1000 From: Stephen McKay Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Greg Lehey wrote: > IIRC we agreed to disagree in general on points of spelling and > punctuation which differ from one country to another, even though > we've agreed to stick to two spaces in the documentation project. I > think it's inappropriate to single people out because they choose to > use a different but valid punctuation convention from the one you do. > > In case you missed it, in England and Australia the convention is one > space after a full stop. I agree with your view of retaining the home country quirks of individual writers (it particularly irritates me when documents written in English are converted to American), and I don't like individuals pointed out negatively in commit logs. But your facts are in error. There is no "one space" convention in Australia. I learned typing in school (an actually useful skill, no less), and two spaces were mandatory. I can accept the possibility of regional variation among states, or the more probable dilution of skill due to increased foreign word processor use, but the two space rule has not to my knowledge been revoked. Um. I think I'll send this rant to -chat. BTW, I'm not currently subscribed to -chat if you want to take me to task for my evil ways. I note with some amusement that you included two spaces in the only place in your message where an inter-sentence gap appeared. What are your true feelings on this issue? ;-) Stephen. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message