Modern English Usage

[CapNemo]

Hmmm necromancer of note reviving a 3 year old corpse

[Tribble]

• After the full stop, at the end of the sentence, there is a space (should be a space) before the next word begins…
(EG: The grass is green. The sky is blue. Roses are red.

Actually - some of us perfer two spaces after the full stop. It makes reading it so much easier.

Oh yes - and commas would be wonderful. Run-on sentences take my breath away (and are confusing to cats).

[rustypup]

for all intensive porpoises, KK has made alot of cents...

[Tribble]

And a lot of progress. The "E" in ek is a welcome addition. KK - I am so glad you stopped typing that way - I really could not (would not) read it.

[Stuart]

Actually - some of us perfer two spaces after the full stop. It makes reading it so much easier.

Do you have some sort of difficulty reading magazines, books and websites. I'd wager that 99.9% of the material you read only includes a single space after the full stop. I'm not sure that the double space does making reading easier any more . . . if it ever did.

[doo_much]

"EG"

[Tribble]

Actually I do have trouble reading American publications, as they do only use the single space. But the main reason I have trouble with magazines is that the text is justified. It is more tiring to read justified text, as the brain has to recalculate the distance between the words, as it keeps changing. Perhaps people don't notice it - but it is really tiring. Sadly, people like it because it looks neater.

[KatrynKat]

"EG"

for example...

@Tribble: that's true, but if you read articles, magazines, scientific articles, you get used to it and it doesn't become a problem anymore.....

[KatrynKat]

for all intensive porpoises, KK has made alot of cents...