On Fri, 11 Jul 2014 21:18:51 -0400 Cindy-Sue Causey <butterflyby...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/11/14, Brad Rogers <b...@fineby.me.uk> wrote: > > This is an international list; Different countries have different > > rules of grammar and spelling, even when the language is ostensibly > > the same. > > > > In any case, Mr. used to always have a full stop after it, much as > > etc. did/does. The dropping of the stop came along after I went to > > school, at the same time the comma stopped being used in addresses > > on and in letter headings. > > > I'm old school taught, too.. To bring it more or less on topic, I > noticed A LOT of changes like that slowly worked their way into > acceptance around the same time the word "computer" was becoming more > commonly uttered.. Not all that long ago, every comma, period, AND > space that could be dropped from usage had a visually measurable data > storage impact on those tiny hard drives of (also) not very long > ago... :) > > Cindy :) LOL, they also have a visually measurable effect on bandwidth, because I killfile those who consistently fail to capitalize and punctuate. I get way too many emails every day to parse by context. SteveT Steve Litt * http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140712071504.68683...@mydesq2.domain.cxm
