Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 15:44:43 -0400 From: drifter@stratos.net To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make.conf Message-ID: <19980829154443.A403@stratos.net> In-Reply-To: <19980829123759.B29560@keltia.freenix.fr>; from Ollivier Robert on Sat, Aug 29, 1998 at 12:37:59PM %2B0200 References: <199808290058.RAA20957@apollo.backplane.com> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980828212840.9718F-100000@localhost> <19980829123759.B29560@keltia.freenix.fr>
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On Sat, Aug 29, 1998 at 12:37:59PM +0200, Ollivier Robert wrote: > [ moved to -chat ] > > According to Tim Vanderhoek: > > I usually break people down into two groups: Those who use two > > spaces after a period, and those who don't. If they don't, > > ignore 'em since they hardly pay attention to what they write, > > anyways. :) Where I work (a newspaper in the Cleveland area), we /have/ to use only one space after the end of each sentence in our news stories. Of course, we use DOS XyWrite... It's just that sometimes it's hard to know when I am not at work :) > > You're telling me that in English, you have to put two spaces after a > period ? It is the first time I've heard of this rule... Well, I remember hearing that rule since I was in grade school. It actually makes a lot more sense than some other "rules" in English, like not starting a sentence with "and", or not ending in a preposition. FWIW, I thnk we should stop worrying about how many WS following sentences, and more about the TLAs and FLAs and wrds w/o vwls n thm that some people in netspace use... Okay ppl??? :) -- drifter@stratos.nospam.net (remove nospam to send) "Am I the only one that cringes every time I hear somebody refer to a disk drive as a 'solution'? It's bad enough I have to listen to that marketing hype from vendors, but now it seems to be infiltrating every-day conversation. I'll decide if that 9GB hard drive is a 'solution' to my problem or not, thank you very much..." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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