From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jun 1 16:40:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A92337B9A8; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 16:40:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@wantadilla.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA22888; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 09:08:33 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 09:08:33 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Mark Ovens Cc: Troy Settle , Mark Blackman , Stephen McKay , Tim Vanderhoek , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Punctuation conventions (was: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/datfiles fortunes) Message-ID: <20000602090832.R20158@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20000601111501.A11561@sophos.com> <20000601180144.A233@parish> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <20000601180144.A233@parish> Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thursday, 1 June 2000 at 18:01:44 +0100, Mark Ovens wrote: > On Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 06:50:18AM -0400, Troy Settle wrote: >> >> Ok, so we're agreed. Two spaces at the end of a sentence is what we're >> taught in the US, UK, and AU. Any one from another English speaking > ^^^^ > Really? Not when I was at school, mind you it was, erm, late 60's, > early '70's. Also ISTR Greg Lehey saying a single space was the AU way > as well. Yes, but I also said that that was by observation, and others have contradicted this statement. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message