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Re: Figure This One Out... Kinda Neat
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Sat, 25 Nov 2000 06:51:46 GMT
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1. substitute are for is
2. errors is misspelled.
2. there are only two errors in the sentence.


Yes you are... But I was hoping to start a discussion on whether or not the
third error is untrue.
Or is it?

Cleverly yours, theirs, and everybody's,
--Electro--

Yes, it is untrue.  There should be two spaces after the period, not
one.  Of course you could argue that the spaces are not part of the
sentence.  :)

Cheers,

That's an out-dated concept taught by keyboarding instructors who were
originally taught on fixed-width font systems e.g. typewriters. There is no
longer a need to extend distances between the end of one sentence and the
beginning of another, with the advent of proportional typefaces...

--Electro--



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  Re: Figure This One Out... Kinda Neat
 
(...) Not to mention that modern word processing software takes cares of inter-sentence spacing by itself. The typing of a second space is a wasted keystroke. (24 years ago, 25-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
  Re: Figure This One Out... Kinda Neat
 
(...) Or, uh, e-mail and usenet news (like lugnet), which should *always* use fixed-width fonts. (24 years ago, 25-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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  Re: Figure This One Out... Kinda Neat
 
(...) Yes, it is untrue. There should be two spaces after the period, not one. Of course you could argue that the spaces are not part of the sentence. :) Cheers, (24 years ago, 24-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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