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What petty hill will you die on? (beehaw.org)
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For me I say that a truck with a cab longer than its bed is not a truck, but an SUV with an overgrown bumper.

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[–] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 9 points 2 years ago (4 children)

There is no space between the last letter of a sentence and punctuation.

Please , please , make it stop !

[–] alex@beehaw.org 13 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Fun fact: this applies for pretty much every language, except for 50% of French punctuation.

[–] luciole@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago

Merci !

[–] Osa-Eris-Xero512@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

This is simply evidence that the English were right.

[–] nlm@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

Wait, what?

[–] Domiku@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Related, we have modern word processors with kerning. Only one space at the end of a sentence! I always find+replace when folks send me documents to publish with double-spaces.

[–] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Don't get me started. I write really long documents for a living. While I don't see this issue at work, when I encounter it in the wild, the vein on the side of my neck starts throbbing uncontrollably. Unfortunately, I'm married to a person who thinks the double space at the end of a sentence is a good thing.

Alimony is too expensive, is it?

[–] indun@feddit.uk 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Double-spacing was taught into me when I was taught typing and I'm never stopping!

[–] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Someone also probably taught you that pineapple on pizza was also acceptable. In both cases, they were fucking wrong! :D

I'm sorry you were abused as a child

[–] indun@feddit.uk 1 points 2 years ago

Whoa whoa whoa, I'm not THAT depraved!

[–] HubertManne@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

why no space after the commas ! ! !

[–] orphiebaby@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

There is also a space after an ellipsis... like this.

Not...like this.

I don't care if everyone does it wrong, it's both harder to read (less functional) and it flies against normal punctuation conventions.

Also, don't get your punctuation inspiration from Japanese games. An ellipsis is three periods, no more. Exclamation mark always goes after question mark. ("?!" = correct) Japan adopted our punctuation marks and did it their way. If you're writing in English, do it the English-language way.