Various & sundry

Dave Monroe davidmmonroe at yahoo.com
Thu Oct 11 04:10:27 CDT 2001


Well, as by now I'm assuming an old and recently very
quiet (though I'm hoping to raise a ruckus of my own
o'er the next few days) "friend," I'll point out that
that "old typist's convention," that "conditioned
reflex," remains a widespread one, even in (and,
perhaps, despite) th' age of electronic communication
...

While it takes up indeed an extran(neous) eight (8)
bits per occurence in the ol' e-mail, it is an aid to
yr editorial types, not to mention yr old skool
typesetters/compositors, making clear a full-stop,
vs., say, merely the punctuation after an abbr.  The
usual paranoias, then, otherwise ...

But this looks interesting here ...

Crystal, David.  Language and the Internet.
   New York: Cambridge UP, 2001.

Will report back on arrival.  Okay, back to our
regularly scheduled Pynchon novel, or, at least, my
Nobel Prizewatch (TM) ...

--- jbor <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:
> 
> Though it is interesting to note how many of our new
> and suddenly very noisy "friends" use a double space
> after sentence punctuation. It's an old typist's
> convention: as a conditioned reflex obviously a
> pretty hard one to shake, too.


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