From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From Address: ANIM8Rfsk@cox.net
Subject: Re: THE SHAT won't be in Crap Trek 2
In article <4e5457cf.14617062@news.west.earthlink.net>,
quester@infionline.net (Harold Groot) wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Aug 2011 19:02:15 -0600, "Dragon Lady"
> wrote:
>
> >
> > wrote in message
> >news:fja2579j6k5t4imiee7n7c8rsqoj5o93h9@4ax.com...
> >> On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 07:02:13 -0700 (PDT), MITO MINISTER
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>>On Jun 21, 8:45 am, "Bast" wrote:
> >>>> Steven L. wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Since the "trek" franchise is pretty much on life support at this
> >>>> point,....it would be the humane thing to do.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>How so? It made more money than any of the other films and a sequel is
> >>>in the works. That's called SUCCESS.
> >>>
> >>>STRA TREK is showbusiness. ENTERTAINMENT.
> >>>
> >>>Your opinions are worthless.
> >>
> >> You DARE call out someone's opinions as worthless and YOU have the
> >> stupidity to write "STRA TREK" ?
> >>
> >> Your spelling is worthless. Oh, and educated people double space
> >> between sentences.
> >
> >Um...educated people double space between paragraphs, not between sentences.
>
>
> You two are talking about two different things there. The first
> person is talking about using two spacebar spaces after a period when
> starting the next sentence in the same paragraph. You are talking
> about using two carriage returns before starting the next paragraph
> (thus leaving a blank line between them).
>
> Actually, this is more of a "Your Generation May Vary" thing than
> anything else. Back before, oh, 1985 or so people were taught to put
> two spaces after a period when typing. Somewhere along the way in the
> Home Computer Age, however, this stopped being taught. I suspect that
> it was because a lot of people who were self-taught on a keyboard were
> not using this convention, and the Powers That Be decided not to fight
It came out of the first electronic typesetters, which couldn't handle a
double space after a period if it hit a line break, and you ended up
with sentences that started with a space. I ran one of the damn things.
They got put out of business by Microsoft Word and desktop publishing,
but the damage appears to be done.
> what was obviously a losing battle. Somewhere around dial-up modems
> to reach a BBS, perhaps during the time when AOL had their period of
> biggest growth, single spaces first became accepted. Later on it
> became the norm.
>
> Of course, paragraphs used to start out indented. Since this gave a
> visual clue that a new paragraph had started, you didn't need to leave
> a blank line in between them. Somewhere along the way (still in the
> computer age) the style changed FOR COMPUTERS of dropping the
> indentation and using a blank line instead. It's a bit easier to read
> and there are essentially no penalties for taking the extra lines.
> Books, newspapers and so on still use indented paragraphs (without the
> blank lines) because using more paper means higher costs.
>
> As you can see, I'm only partly committed to the new style. I don't
> indent paragraphs (using a blank line instead), but I still use double
> spacebar spaces before I start a new sentence. Again, that little bit
> of extra white space makes it a little easier to read (IMHO).
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