From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jun 1 15:24:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from turtle.looksharp.net (cc360882-a.strhg1.mi.home.com [24.2.221.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 657EE37B7A3 for ; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 15:24:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsdx@looksharp.net) Received: from localhost (bsdx@localhost) by turtle.looksharp.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA21986 for ; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 18:25:42 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bsdx@looksharp.net) Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 18:25:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Adam To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Punctuation conventions In-Reply-To: <8h6k9a$6ke$1@bigeye.mips.inka.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 1 Jun 2000, Christian Weisgerber wrote: >Ollivier Robert wrote: > >> Speaking as a non native english speaker, I must say that I learned in the >> FreeBSD mailing-lists that two spaces were required at the end of a >> sentence... > >The block fill functions of some editors as well as fmt(1) give it >away, too. > >> I'll certainly try to remember this in my future emails. > >I trust you already noticed that English doesn't share the French >habit of putting a space before '?' and '!'? > >Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de Since this is -chat, what the hey... One thing I find annoying is people who put a . before ?'s, could this be a convention or just bad typing? Something like Blah blah blah blah blah.? I think I've only seen it on irc... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message