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Monkeh

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A HUGE problem!
« on: March 09, 2010, 13:19:44 PM »
Something has come to light and it's such a massive problem I'm not sure I can even bring myself to post about it, it really is such a massive issue that I think it needs dealing with immediately!

I was perusing my friends list earlier, looking for Enef to send a message to and I couldn't find him.....hmmmm strange I thought.

On closer inspection I realised his tag, and others, had no space before his name!  I mean can you believe it?  Some of the clan have '.:ne:.name' and some have '.:ne:. name' The steam friends list then decides that a space is alphabetically superior to a letter or symbol and messes with the order of people on the list.

This simply cannot be allowed to continue.  It's an absolute disgrace tbh.  What would our mothers think?  Imagine if your dad found out!  You'd be for it then, I can tell ya.  For now I shall adopt the, slightly more common, convention of 'nospace', however we really need a uniform tag/name boundary, or all hell will break loose, you mark my words!
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Here is a small quantity of salt   .:.

« Last Edit: March 09, 2010, 13:26:33 PM by Monkeh »

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Re: A HUGE problem!
« Reply #1 on: March 09, 2010, 13:27:33 PM »
While we're at it, double spaces after sentence closing punctuation are full of fail.

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Re: A HUGE problem!
« Reply #2 on: March 09, 2010, 13:42:30 PM »
While we're at it, double spaces after sentence closing punctuation are full of fail.

Really?  This is how I was taught.  I shall continue failing my hardest.  Wont I?  Yes!  I shall!  Jesus wept.  Good times!  Yay.
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Re: A HUGE problem!
« Reply #3 on: March 09, 2010, 14:10:26 PM »
Well spotted Monkeh.  Shall have a peek m'self later.

Note the two spaces after the first fullstop.  I believe that's correct or at least acceptable.

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Re: A HUGE problem!
« Reply #4 on: March 09, 2010, 14:22:19 PM »
I was taught two spaces as well, but I always use 1 space in MS word, as there's a formatting option for making it look like 2 spaces if you want.  That way I can alter it depending on the opinion of whoever I'm writing it for.
« Last Edit: March 09, 2010, 14:38:11 PM by frymaster »

Monkeh

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Re: A HUGE problem!
« Reply #5 on: March 09, 2010, 15:08:22 PM »
That way I can alter it depending on the opinion of whoever I'm writing it for.

So you send an email asking wether they like single or double spaces at sentence end, but is that email itself single or double spaced?  I sense an infinitum of spaces!

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Re: A HUGE problem!
« Reply #6 on: March 09, 2010, 15:26:54 PM »
Well spotted Monkeh.  Shall have a peek m'self later.

Note the two spaces after the first fullstop.  I believe that's correct or at least acceptable.

It's a pet peeve of mine. ;) Two spaces are an artifact of mono-width fonts and type setting. It hasn't been correct or acceptable with modern variable width fonts and computing for some time and in fact wrecks a lot of formatting in publication.
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Re: A HUGE problem!
« Reply #7 on: March 09, 2010, 15:37:11 PM »
fucking nerds.

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Re: A HUGE problem!
« Reply #8 on: March 09, 2010, 16:16:53 PM »

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Re: A HUGE problem!
« Reply #9 on: March 09, 2010, 16:23:04 PM »

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Re: A HUGE problem!
« Reply #10 on: March 09, 2010, 16:53:39 PM »
At least some of us are fucking ;)

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Re: A HUGE problem!
« Reply #11 on: March 09, 2010, 17:02:55 PM »
@monkey: when i first noticed this little gap between the tag and you (which was quite a while ago) i started asking several people, who all had no space in between. and 85% of the ne people in my list didn't have one as well, so i adopted the little nospace and got used to it.

also: toilet or shower sex?

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Re: A HUGE problem!
« Reply #12 on: March 09, 2010, 17:13:23 PM »
fucking nerds.
A capital at the start of a sentence?

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Re: A HUGE problem!
« Reply #13 on: March 09, 2010, 17:15:31 PM »
...

also: toilet or shower sex?
Can't say.  We're all being very discrete and sensitive in not wanting to upset Enef.