Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 11:15:01 +0100 From: Mark Blackman <tmb@sophos.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Stephen McKay <mckay@thehub.com.au>, Tim Vanderhoek <hoek@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Punctuation conventions (was: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/datfiles fortunes) Message-ID: <20000601111501.A11561@sophos.com> In-Reply-To: <20000601095056.D16657@wantadilla.lemis.com>; from grog@lemis.com on Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 09:50:56AM %2B0930 References: <20000528135144.B15565@wantadilla.lemis.com> <200005311543.BAA03923@dungeon.home> <20000601095056.D16657@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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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. On Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 09:50:56AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: > > I didn't say I was conventional :-) I use the two space convention > because I find it more convenient. But most text written in Australia > or England has a single space after the full stop. Period. > -- Mark Blackman,Internet Systems Administrator,Sophos Anti-Virus e-mail: tmb@sophos.com http://www.sophos.com US Support: +1 888 SOPHOS 9 UK Support: +44 1235 559933 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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