SeilerBird
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With all the bad grammar, bad spelling and bad punctuation I see on the Internet I think the number of spaces after a period is very low on my list of complaints.
Tom said:Colleges I attended had "form manuals" or some such, which defined how they wanted things written, although I don't recall what they said about spaces. Did your post graduate college have such a document?
SeilerBird said:With all the bad grammar, bad spelling and bad punctuation I see on the Internet I think the number of spaces after a period is very low on my list of complaints.
Me, too!Gary RVer Emeritus said:Apparently my childhood was deprived, since nobody taught me about spacing between sentences except that there was some. Maybe because I never had a typing class? We wrote in cursive or printed, so the notion of "single" or "double" did not apply.
I mostly double-space when using a keyboard, simply because it improves readability in longer paragraphs. Never really thought about having a rule about it, though.
Old_Crow said:I think it may be another consequence of Twitter, where character count, counts.
Get off my lawn!
xrated said:Another thing that I see frequently is the lack of a comma when needed. Example: Yesterday we went to town and shopped, had dinner, and saw a movie. Lots of folks would leave out the comma after the word "dinner". I was taught that when you structure a sentence using multiple nouns, like the above example, a comma is required after each and every one.
Don't get me started on the cursive subject!