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elleng

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11. A puzzlement,

Reply to steve2470 (Reply #9)

Mon Dec 1, 2014, 01:28 AM

Dec 2014

unless you were educated in the past few years with the b.s. that's happening, but as you apparently weren't, its a puzzlement.

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grammar conundrum [View all] steve2470 Dec 2014 OP

I was always taught no space! Suich Dec 2014 #1

No space. yewberry Dec 2014 #2

That never was a standard pinboy3niner Dec 2014 #3

orlando florida in the sixties ? lol steve2470 Dec 2014 #7

As a journalism student, I was weaned on news stylebooks in the '60s pinboy3niner Dec 2014 #10

snoreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee steve2470 Dec 2014 #12

No space...! ..nt TeeYiYi Dec 2014 #4

fwiw steve2470 Dec 2014 #5

No Space! <------like this! CaliforniaPeggy Dec 2014 #6

thanks, now I can sleep! :) nt steve2470 Dec 2014 #14

I was never taught that. elleng Dec 2014 #8

I must have had really bad instructors steve2470 Dec 2014 #9

A puzzlement, elleng Dec 2014 #11

yeah, grad school was in the 80's for me ...and I was never corrected, oh well nt steve2470 Dec 2014 #13

An extra space might be noticed, but is not necessarily something that would marked as an error pinboy3niner Dec 2014 #16

yea steve2470 Dec 2014 #17

Hell, with all your spelling and grammar errors they had more than enough to worry about pinboy3niner Dec 2014 #18

lol and my tendency to turn them in at the last nanosecond! :P nt steve2470 Dec 2014 #19

True story... pinboy3niner Dec 2014 #20

very clever! nt steve2470 Dec 2014 #22

No space! NRaleighLiberal Dec 2014 #15

I was taught to follow AP standards and I've never seen or heard of using a space... Rhiannon12866 Dec 2014 #21

No space for exclamation marks here in Cali mackerel Dec 2014 #23

Overuse? Are you nuts? Exclamation points CANNOT be overused!1!! pinboy3niner Dec 2014 #24

LMAO! mackerel Dec 2014 #29

You're all jaded. rug Dec 2014 #32

Absolutely no space. Whoever you that did not know English grammar. n/t RebelOne Dec 2014 #25

You are still a good person, but there was never any space. Hoyt Dec 2014 #26

Thanks, see eta above, I probably changed it on my own nt steve2470 Dec 2014 #27

Languages evolve. Get more followers. RedCloud Dec 2014 #28

That's my attitude. hunter Dec 2014 #39

That is not a "grammar" anything. WinkyDink Dec 2014 #30

That's a typography conundrum. rug Dec 2014 #31

Yep. Poor kerning. Paulie Dec 2014 #34

Always kern the bang. rug Dec 2014 #35

!!! Paulie Dec 2014 #36

Some of the grammar police need to be a little kinder to people like me. BlueJazz Dec 2014 #33

Yes, ! mia Dec 2014 #37

my mom would say: "oh well. what the hell?" orleans Dec 2014 #38

On a computer do not add a space before !, and do only one space after a period Recursion Dec 2014 #40

No Space, the final frontier LiberalEsto Dec 2014 #41