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View Poll Results: Do you use the Oxford Comma? | |||
Yes | 51 | 68.92% | |
No | 21 | 28.38% | |
Comma? Hell I barely use punctuation at all | 2 | 2.70% | |
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06-17-2014, 12:16 PM | #31 |
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who gives a **** about an oxford comma
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06-17-2014, 12:17 PM | #32 |
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Ya' know fish, if you really hate to use two spaces. You can customize the space you want to be a tad wider, but not as much as two typewriter spaces if it bothers you so much.
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06-17-2014, 12:17 PM | #33 |
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Without. Learned that a looooong time ago.
Two spaces after a period is correct. Absolutely correct. But I could care less about that one. |
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06-17-2014, 12:17 PM | #34 |
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06-17-2014, 12:20 PM | #35 | |
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The regular characters on Gilligan's Island were: Gilligan, the Skipper, the Professor, Mr. and Mrs Howell, Mary Anne and Ginger. As I read that, I have to wonder if Mary Anne and Ginger are a couple. The Oxford comma would clearly show that both of them are on the market. |
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06-17-2014, 12:20 PM | #36 |
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06-17-2014, 12:21 PM | #37 | |
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Modern books never, ever use the extra space. So people who are used to reading are accustomed to not having that extra space.
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06-17-2014, 12:22 PM | #38 |
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I don't have it backwards. That's why the second space was put in there in the first place, when they were using typewriters.
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06-17-2014, 12:23 PM | #39 |
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06-17-2014, 12:24 PM | #40 |
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06-17-2014, 12:25 PM | #42 | |
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But books never use the extra space. To me it seems like its helpful only if you "read like shit"
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There were not 2 spaces before typewriters, because proportional fonts used in standard printing did not require them. Two spaces were used when there were only mono-spaced type on typewriters. Unless you are using Courier font, the second space no longer helps readability and in fact impairs it.
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06-17-2014, 12:25 PM | #44 |
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Picture says a thousand words:
Hope this helps.
Here's an image of a sample of even typewriter spacing versus optical: http://www.westminster.edu/staff/nak/courses/spaces.htm |
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06-17-2014, 12:26 PM | #45 |
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