Typos are why we have the edit function. If they drive you nuts, you can fix them. If not, that's fine too.
Anybody can be a prop class clown.
Xander ,'Touched'
Delurking 1: Because we don't always check our e-mail.
Dana - Oct 04, 2009 1:51:49 pm PDT #374 of 3094
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
-t - Oct 04, 2009 1:52:12 pm PDT #375 of 3094
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I used to automatically do the two hits to the spacebar, but my current keyboards feel so different from typewriters that the muscle memory has been overridden.
Barb - Oct 04, 2009 1:52:50 pm PDT #376 of 3094
“Not dead yet!”
Teach me!
As soon as I remember, I'll tell you!
Steph L. - Oct 04, 2009 1:54:26 pm PDT #377 of 3094
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
We have a massive, multi-page macro at work that covers all the really common things that authors do that violate our house style -- lots of minutiae (like no periods in academic degrees -- MD, PhD, etc.), but that's our thing. We just run it first before we ever start editing.
Amy - Oct 04, 2009 2:02:00 pm PDT #378 of 3094
Because books.
And even the editors/writers here don't have flawless grammar when posting. God knows *I* don't.
Oh, god, me either. And I use ellipses and em dashes far too much here and in casual use.
SailAweigh - Oct 04, 2009 2:06:12 pm PDT #379 of 3094
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
I remember being taught the two spaces after a period, when I took a typing class with a real typewriter, but as soon as I switched to computers with word processors I quit doing that. I'm not sure why, somebody must have told me because I rarely think to change my habits that way. What did surprise me recently was taking a typing test on a computer and the program specified I was to put in two spaces after a period! It made me wonder, since this was a test for a county job, if the county still had scads of typewriters in use in their offices.
Tom Scola - Oct 04, 2009 2:09:08 pm PDT #380 of 3094
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
Gordon Brown, or Tony Blair?
megan walker - Oct 04, 2009 2:12:59 pm PDT #381 of 3094
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Why was two spaces needed for typewriting, but not now?
tiggy - Oct 04, 2009 2:13:16 pm PDT #382 of 3094
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore
for what it's worth, i was taught two spaces after a period on a computer.
Polter-Cow - Oct 04, 2009 2:16:35 pm PDT #383 of 3094
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
As was I. I was confused when I got to college and discovered it was okay to just use one space. It took me a while to break the habit. Hell, I still see it sometimes.