Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 16:29:25 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Punctuation conventions (was: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/datfiles fortunes) Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20000601162717.04482370@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20000601141807.A40162@keltia.freenix.fr> References: <FCEELIAEIIECDGKKJLMIKECDCAAA.troy@picus.com> <20000601111501.A11561@sophos.com> <FCEELIAEIIECDGKKJLMIKECDCAAA.troy@picus.com>
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At 06:18 AM 6/1/2000, Ollivier Robert wrote: >According to Troy Settle: >> The fact that some (most?) people don't use two spaces at the end of a >> sentence is probably due to ignorance, indifference, or laziness. I for > >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... That convention dates back to the time of hand-set type and has, of late, been abandoned. One space is now not only acceptable but preferred in business correspondence. --Brett Glass To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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