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Post by majestic on Oct 22, 2024 7:36:42 GMT -5
So sorry to hear this. Cancer sucks. I have lost too many loved ones to cancer. I pray you get quality time with friends and family for as long as possible.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Oct 22, 2024 10:21:12 GMT -5
You were so right shaxper. This forum has so many great members and it only multiplied while I was away Again thank you all. These well wishes have really elevated my spirits. I've run out of cornball replies. Now I've just got to contact Jane Foster for advice and maybe a spare hammer  |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Oct 22, 2024 10:26:10 GMT -5
You were so right shaxper . This forum has so many great members and it only multiplied while I was away Again thank you all. These well wishes have really elevated my spirits. I've run out of cornball replies. Now I've just got to contact Jane Foster for advice and maybe a spare hammer Who knows....maybe she'll polish your hammer.  |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Oct 22, 2024 10:50:33 GMT -5
So my son who recently graduated law school has started working at his firm and texts me yesterday asking "if there is some old person logic behind two spaces after a period that I am too Millennial to understand?" So I had to explain to him the difficulties of words running together when typing and/or doing old-school printing. Apparently the Court rules for the Brief he is writing still require two spaces after the period.
It's always good to be able to give "legal" reasoning.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Oct 22, 2024 12:17:50 GMT -5
So my son who recently graduated law school has started working at his firm and texts me yesterday asking "if there is some old person logic behind two spaces after a period that I am too Millennial to understand?" So I had to explain to him the difficulties of words running together when typing and/or doing old-school printing. Apparently the Court rules for the Brief he is writing still require two spaces after the period. It's always good to be able to give "legal" reasoning. How odd. I recall learning the two spaces rule in typing class in my freshman year of hs (1982/83). Then, less than two years later (starting in the fall of 1984), when I was on the staff of the school newspaper - where we used word processing software on Apple II computers to write our copy - being expressly told to *not* type two spaces after periods. Interesting that the old rule still lingers in some contexts.
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Post by Calidore on Oct 22, 2024 15:46:11 GMT -5
I still always put two spaces after a period--decades of muscle memory demands it. I have noticed that forum software shortens it to one space.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Oct 22, 2024 15:47:10 GMT -5
I still always put two spaces after a period--decades of muscle memory demands it. I have noticed that forum software shortens it to one space. I do too. They'll take my extra space from my cold dead hands. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Oct 22, 2024 15:48:26 GMT -5
So my son who recently graduated law school has started working at his firm and texts me yesterday asking "if there is some old person logic behind two spaces after a period that I am too Millennial to understand?" So I had to explain to him the difficulties of words running together when typing and/or doing old-school printing. Apparently the Court rules for the Brief he is writing still require two spaces after the period. It's always good to be able to give "legal" reasoning. How odd. I recall learning the two spaces rule in typing class in my freshman year of hs (1982/83). Then, less than two years later (starting in the fall of 1984), when I was on the staff of the school newspaper - where we used word processing software on Apple II computers to write our copy - being expressly told to *not* type two spaces after periods. Interesting that the old rule still lingers in some contexts.
I'm sure that it's an old Court rule that's just never been changed. It may never be changed because there are always more important things to address than something like that. |
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Post by driver1980 on Oct 22, 2024 15:57:13 GMT -5
Not exactly the same, but it reminds me of occasional debates here (sometimes by government departments) about the Oxford comma…
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Oct 22, 2024 15:59:05 GMT -5
Not exactly the same, but it reminds me of occasional debates here (sometimes by government departments) about the Oxford comma… The Oxford comma makes perfect sense. Trying to get rid of it is madness. |
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Post by driver1980 on Oct 22, 2024 16:05:55 GMT -5
Absolutely!
Without getting into specific politics and individuals, 2 years ago or so, a newly appointed government minister here put out a memo telling staff to stop using the Oxford comma. Had I been in a room with her, my words would have been, “With all the challenges that governing brings, and all the ways you can improve people’s lives, THAT is your priority?!”
Imagine choosing that hill to die on. Imagine wasting a second on that!
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Post by Rob Allen on Oct 22, 2024 18:00:19 GMT -5
My favorite Oxford comma example, the dedication page of a book:
"This book is dedicated to my parents, Ayn Rand and God."
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Post by Calidore on Oct 22, 2024 18:42:43 GMT -5
I still always put two spaces after a period--decades of muscle memory demands it. I have noticed that forum software shortens it to one space. I do too. They'll take my extra space from my cold dead hands. I see your posts do have the double space. How does that work? |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Oct 22, 2024 20:07:18 GMT -5
I do too. They'll take my extra space from my cold dead hands. I see your posts do have the double space. How does that work? It works very well. |
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Post by codystarbuck on Oct 22, 2024 21:08:29 GMT -5
Always double space at the end of a sentence and after a colon; never deviated from that in mumble mumble years of typing! Now, I will omit the period after things like Mr and Dr, except at the end of a sentence. Middle initials, too. You have to have some rebellion.  |
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