Re: [talk] "I love Alberta Beef" Ascii art.
From Aidan Karley <aid...@karley.demon.co.uk>
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· 16 Jun 2003 09:51 · View full thread
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In article <200...@bubble.markhill.me.uk>, Mark Hill wrote: > > However, I now wonder if educators are even > > teaching the double space rule, which I learned [SNIP] > > It seems these days, grammar is not > taught much in schools. I'm not too > sure why, but it seems to be a very > common thing happening in the U.S.A > and U.K at least. I'm sure I didn't > This is not GRAMMAR, but a publication or presentation style. While there are LOTS of handbooks and sets of guidelines on presentation style, they're a different thing from rules of grammar. Personally, I find the double-space after a full stop irritating and unnecessary, but I wouldn't even consider describing it as anything other than a personal preference. On the other hand,forgetting a [space] after a punctuation mark is almost as bad as TALKING IN ALL CAPITALS, and damaging as it renders the text more difficult to read. If I see text such as LongClassName.ObscureMemberName, however, I'll accept it as being in a different language to written English, and conform to the mandatory rules of that language. Do you read email in a fixed or a proportional font? wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww___^ Does YOUR choice of presentation affect the grammar and/ or content of the message? And will that indicator work? <G> "You are in a maze of twisty little presentation styles, all [different | alike]." -- Aidan Karley, Geologist, Peripatetic.
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