Teach me!
As soon as I remember, I'll tell you!
We have to see the chimp playing hockey! That's hilarious! The ice is so slippery, and, and monkeys are all irrational. We have to see this!
Anya ,'Bring On The Night'
Delurking 1: Because we don't always check our e-mail.
Barb - Oct 04, 2009 1:52:50 pm PDT #376 of 3094
“Not dead yet!”
Steph L. - Oct 04, 2009 1:54:26 pm PDT #377 of 3094
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
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
hwæt
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.
Zenkitty - Oct 04, 2009 2:16:42 pm PDT #384 of 3094
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
massive, multi-page macro
Steph, this, exactly! Couldn't live without it.
I now live in fear of posting more than a sentence here
oh, no, don't fear! Post! We like your sentences!
Yeah, what was with 2 spaces, anyway?
Amy - Oct 04, 2009 2:18:53 pm PDT #385 of 3094
Because books.
Yeah, what was with 2 spaces, anyway?
I think everything was given equal weight/space on a typewriter? So it was maybe to help distinguish that it was indeed a period, and the end of a sentence?
I'm not sure; there's a lot of typesetting from newspapers, etc., that predates me.