From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: epwise@yahoo.com   
   Subject: Re: THE SHAT won't be in Crap Trek 2   
      
   "Dragon Lady"  wrote in   
   news:j31ver$3ba$1@dont-email.me:    
      
   >    
   > "Harold Groot"  wrote in message    
   > news:4e5457cf.14617062@news.west.earthlink.net...   
   >> On Tue, 23 Aug 2011 19:02:15 -0600, "Dragon Lady"   
   >>  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>   
   >>> wrote in message   
   >>>news:fja2579j6k5t4imiee7n7c8rsqoj5o93h9@4ax.com...   
   >>>> 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).   
   >    
   > Ah!  Now it makes sense.   
   >>   
   >> 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 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.   
   >    
   > You mean the hunt and peck people?  :D  Anybody who was taught to type   
   > using a QWERTY keyboard was also taught that you spaced twice after a   
   > period when I was learning to type.  I take it they don't teach that   
   > anymore? Personally, I think it made it easier to read.   
   >    
   >>   
   >> 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).    
   >    
   > Actually, it sounds like you grew up in the same generation as I did.    
   > I do the same thing though.  Like you, I find it easier to read with   
   > the double space between paragraphs and after periods.   
   >    
      
   I'd be more concerned that, judging on many people's writing ability,    
   grammar isn't being taught anymore in schools.   
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