Is this wrong? (Grammar)

Rhodri2311 said:
As has been mentioned several times it was the taught method due to being a relic of typewriters using mono-spaced texts
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That's how it started but it continued after computers took over because it actually works/looks better not because it was a relic. Single space is fine for handwriting but for typed double space just works better.

It shows itself quite well when you read articles on places like Anandtech and the like where some writers use double and some single. Reading an article with single after reading one with double makes the superiority of double blatantly obvious.
 
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Double space after a full stop you say? Your all mad/ weird/ strange/ old...:eek:

First started using 'word processing' programs back in school in 1996 for work and in the IT class and the only thing we were taught about typing was that you put a space between the end of one paragraph and the start of a new one. :)
 
Irish_Tom said:
Well that depends. I try and apply typographic rules to everything I write, even the Christmas cards I wrote in December (in that I'll agree I have too much time on my hands. :p)
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Shame you don't apply the same rules to your use of the full stop then.

Surely it should be outside the bracket? Unless that's some other new typography rule that's been introduced in the last few years. :p
 
ubersonic said:
Single space is fine for handwriting but for typed double space just works better.

It shows itself quite well when you read articles on places like Anandtech and the like where some writers use double and some single. Reading an article with single after reading one with double makes the superiority of double blatantly obvious.
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Your point is purely subjective. :)

I've never read a doubly-spaced text and thought, 'my, that looks dandy'. Quite the reverse in fact.
 
estebanrey said:
Shame you don't apply the same rules to your use of the full stop then.

Surely it should be outside the bracket? Unless that's some other new typography rule that's been introduced in the last few years. :p
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You got me!

Although if I'd put a full stop after December and capitalised the 'i' in 'In' it would have been fine.
 
ubersonic said:
That's how it started but it continued after computers took over because it actually works/looks better not because it was a relic. Single space is fine for handwriting but for typed double space just works better.

It shows itself quite well when you read articles on places like Anandtech and the like where some writers use double and some single. Reading an article with single after reading one with double makes the superiority of double blatantly obvious.
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I don't notice all that much of a difference either way with single or double spaced (and all studies done on it seem to agree that it makes no real difference to legibility), however the professional convention seems to have swung to using a single space after a full stop.
 
I'm surprised no one has noticed the mistakes in the title of this thread. It should technically be "Is this incorrect (grammar)?"

* You should use correct/incorrect when discussing anything with rules or regulations, like grammar, and right/wrong should really only be used for moral/opinion topics.

* No need to put a capital in 'grammar'

* The bracketed section should go inside the question, not outside of it.

;)
 
estebanrey said:
I'm surprised no one has noticed the mistakes in the title of this thread. It should technically be "Is this incorrect (grammar)?"

* You should use correct/incorrect when discussing anything with rules or regulations, like grammar, and right/wrong should really only be used for moral/opinion topics.

* No need to put a capital in 'grammar'

* The bracketed section should go inside the question, not outside of it.

;)
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I guess it depends how you interpret it. There is no right or wrong way of titling a thread. Read it like this: "Is this wrong?" and then just for clarification in case people wanted to avoid the thread I put "grammar" in brackets. Nothing correct or incorrect about it. As such, neither your comment about capitalisation nor the use of brackets apply here.

In my thread title "wrong" was used as an adjective which is defined as:

not correct or true; incorrect
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Finally, this doesn't really regard punctuation but rather typography. The principal of putting two spaces after a full stop when word processing is merely for typographical reasons.

There is always the problem of interpretation in regard to grammar. ;):cool:
 
cheechm said:
I guess it depends how you interpret it. There is no right or wrong way of titling a thread. Read it like this: "Is this wrong?" and then just for clarification in case people wanted to avoid the thread I put "grammar" in brackets. Nothing correct or incorrect about it. As such, neither your comment about capitalisation nor the use of brackets apply here.

In my thread title "wrong" was used as an adjective which is defined as:



Finally, this doesn't really regard punctuation but rather typography. The principal of putting two spaces after a full stop when word processing is merely for typographical reasons.

There is always the problem of interpretation in regard to grammar. ;):cool:
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I was being flippant but STRICTLY speaking the terms 'right and wrong' should be used to describe moral issues where 'correct and incorrect' should be used when discussing rules.

http://www.grammarly.com/answers/questions/5257-wrong-and-right-correct-and-incorrect/

But that is a very pedantic interpretation of the use of those words I'll grant you.

But the bracket thing I said was correct. The explanation that it was grammar related is part of the original question because you put it in brackets. If you hadn't used the brackets then you would have been correct[ish] but you can't really bracket a new sentence off as you did. Brackets denote a further clarification of the current sentence hence why the question mark (denoting the end of the sentence) should have been placed after it.

So (ignoring the wrong vs. incorrect and grammar vs. punctuation points) you can have...

Is this wrong (grammar)?

...or

Is this wrong? Grammar related.

But you can't really have 'Is this wrong? (Grammar)'
 
Fair to you. I agree with everything you've said. I guess wrapping "grammar" in square brackets at the beginning of the title might have made a difference.

My aim was to be similar to:

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or

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Basically a prefix for the thread title, almost clarifying the subject from "general discussion" to "grammar" if you will.

Although, as I've said, grammar is open to interpretation, so it's probably right to say that we're both right and there'll be several solutions to one problem.

:D
 
[FnG]magnolia;23554571 said:
One space for commas, two for a full stop. Everything was radical and nothing sucked.

e : I've been on this forum for 5 years and never once noticed that the 'extra' space is removed :eek:
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I'm glad you wrote that, because I hadn't noticed either and I was feeling a bit silly.

I was taught the same way. I even do so when handwriting. Probably not double, but I do leave a wider space after a full stop.
 
Redgie said:
Can't say I've ever double spaced after a full stop, don't know why you would?
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Because it was the custom for centuries. There's no objective reason either way since it makes very little difference to legibility and which looks better depends entirely on which you've been taught to see as looking better.
 
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