From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com>
To: The Cygwin-Talk Malingering List <cygwin-talk@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: My Spacebar is OK!
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 16:59:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050610151552.GG7942@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42A9AC34.9000302@familiehaase.de>
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 05:05:24PM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>Here's how it works:
>>
>>Two spaces after ".", one space after ",". No space before "." or ","
>>and it's "something" not " something " .
> ^^^ obviously
>there are exceptions possible;)
I was actually setting out the examples for effect and was trying to use
a minimal number of words since the person was a non-English speaker.
I should have known not to get involved in this kind of thing, though.
It *ALWAYS* devolves into "I don't use two spaces" and "You made a mistake
so why are you telling me what to do" scenarios.
cgf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-10 15:15 UTC|newest]
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[not found] ` <20050610135326.GD7942@trixie.casa.cgf.cx>
2005-06-10 15:08 ` Gerrit P. Haase
2005-06-10 16:59 ` Christopher Faylor [this message]
2005-06-13 11:29 Williams, Gerald S (Jerry)
2005-06-13 15:30 ` Lionel B
2005-06-13 15:34 ` Dave Korn
2005-06-13 16:21 ` Christopher Faylor
2005-06-13 17:06 ` Lionel B
2005-06-13 17:34 ` Igor Pechtchanski
2005-06-13 17:10 ` Igor Pechtchanski
2005-06-13 17:33 ` Dave Korn
2005-06-13 17:50 ` Igor Pechtchanski
2005-06-14 9:09 ` Lionel B
2005-06-14 15:58 ` Igor Pechtchanski
2005-06-14 12:15 ` Dave Korn
2005-06-14 15:59 ` One Angry User
2005-06-15 0:32 ` zzapper
2005-06-13 13:52 Williams, Gerald S (Jerry)
2005-06-14 13:51 Williams, Gerald S (Jerry)
2005-06-14 15:57 ` Dave Korn
2005-06-15 9:26 ` Carlo Florendo
2005-06-15 9:26 ` Dave Korn
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