A question for old people
Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 11:43 am
What is it with you typewriter generation and hitting space before exclamation marks? It looks weird !
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Haha, I always do that! But I never put a space before punctuation marks, that's just wrong.Matt Morrison wrote:Is it also only old people that put two spaces after a full stop before the next sentence? That really hurts me.
The double spaces get suppressed by HTML anyway, so no one can tell the difference.JimBentley wrote:Haha, I always do that! But I never put a space before punctuation marks, that's just wrong.Matt Morrison wrote:Is it also only old people that put two spaces after a full stop before the next sentence? That really hurts me.
We older people tend to look at a thing called Google before we ask questions like that. Try it, it's really good.Matt Morrison wrote:Is it also only old people that put two spaces after a full stop before the next sentence? That really hurts me.
"...old people that..."? Try who. That really hurts me.Matt Morrison wrote:Is it also only old people that put two spaces after a full stop before the next sentence? That really hurts me.
What makes you think there's anything wrong with that, err, who?kevin manthorpe wrote:"...old people that..."? Try who. That really hurts me.Matt Morrison wrote:Is it also only old people that put two spaces after a full stop before the next sentence? That really hurts me.
By defining it in terms of whether you put a space before an exclamation mark, it becomes objectively measurable.kevin manthorpe wrote:Old, though, is a very subjective term.
Sometimes we write like how we talk, especially when most of our lives are spent talking to people wot ain't educated.Ben Hunter wrote:It's because the French do it and the old people on this board were obviously around when Britain got invaded by Normans.
George Jenkins wrote:most of our lives are spent talking to people wot ain't educated.
George Jenkins wrote:Sometimes we write, like, how we talk
No.Matt Morrison wrote:Is it also only old people that put two spaces after a full stop before the next sentence? That really hurts me.
I sometimes do it and I know why I do it: the font my system uses is very cramped and punctuation marks, particularly exclamation marks, just don't show up at the end of a paragraph. In many cases, certainly in forum postings, an exclamation mark is effectively a statement in itself, separate from the preceding text. So I separate it. I would prefer a hard space but I can't make that work here.Charlie Reams wrote:What is it with you typewriter generation and hitting space before exclamation marks? It looks weird !
Yep, but another one which is being increasingly used here.Mark Harrison wrote:'Period' for 'full stop' is an Americanism isn't it?
From now on, I'm going to talk proper, as illustrated in your edited version of my post, with added commas. And if I lose all my old friends because I speak posher than they do Kai, I shall blame you. (Shall or will? I never know which word to use) What does ROFL! mean. It sounds ominous, and I'm trembling in my boots.Kai Ludeman wrote:George Jenkins wrote:most of our lives are spent talking to people wot ain't educated.George Jenkins wrote:Sometimes we write, like, how we talk