Tag: grammar

typing 2 spaces after a sentence is wrong

6 May, 2011 (12:00) | FYI/DIY

Typing 2 spaces after a period at the end a sentence is wrong. Maybe “wrong” is too strong, but it’s not right.  Don’t believe me?  Go ask the experts, like the Modern Language Association – http://www.mla.org/style_faq3 It stems back to the old days of typewriters, where each character took up the same “space” as any […]

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Hall’s Rules of Social Order #58

11 October, 2010 (12:00) | Hall's Rules of Social Order

Do your best to avoid creating problems for yourself and your offspring.  IE: if you chose a name for them that is in any way entertaining, that’s setting them up to be taunted.  They’re name should be easy to pronounce correctly (phonetics works).  I knew someone named Parker Brothers, Chris Cross, and Secretia.  Those are […]

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