This debate reminds me of the prescriptivist vs. descriptivist grammar wars -- it's amazing to me how emotionally attached people become to Their Way of Doing Things.
- Darcy
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On 06 Jul, 2004, at 06:59 PM, Noel Stoutenburg wrote:
Mark D Lew wrote, in part:
The argument for double-spacing between sentences is that the inter-sentence gap needs to be larger than the inter-word gap. To single-space after a period makes the inter-word gap and the inter-sentence gap identical.
to which I would note that I was taught that the reason for double spacing after the dot after a sentence was to make it easy for the reader to distinguish between the dot as a signal for an abreviation ("Mr. Smith"), and the dot as a signal for a full stop.
ns
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