Language and English

From: Hans Franke <Hans.Franke_at_mch20.sbs.de>
Date: Fri Jan 4 11:33:26 2002

> When I was in the 8th grade, one of the courses we were required to take was
> in typing. I've never gotten particularly good at it, but I did learn that
> a period at the end of a sentence is followed by two spaces, for example.

Thank you very much. So it seams there is a 'school' forcing this in
the US .... and I always wondered why some people add two spaces after
a period. There's even a very old 'text beautyfier' for DOS which
inserted this (for my eyes) stupid spaces. Well, I guess CC is no
 only the hardwarae :=)

Gurss
H.

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