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a poll about grammar

  • May. 9th, 2006 at 6:29 PM
cali: (dictionary/thesaurus OTP4eva!)
Last week my teacher who makes me want to punch him went off on a rant about how he cannot stand that students nowadays only use one space after a period and not two. He said it will, like, actually ruin his night when he's reading papers and was quite hysterical in his hatred for the trend. While I insist on using two spaces after my periods, I don't-as he went on at length about-do it so that my sentences can have a chance to breathe and settle into my reader's consciousness. But it did get me thinking about various grammar rules. Hence, a poll!

[Poll #725850]
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[identity profile] neery.livejournal.com wrote:
May. 10th, 2006 07:42 pm (UTC)
*stares* See, when I was learning English, I expected the vocabulary and the grammar to be different. Duh. I got used to idioms that make no sense even if you can translate them perfectly well. I even accepted that the spelling didn't really start to make sense even after I learned how to do it. But no one, in all my years of studying English, ever told me that the punctuation was different, too. Seriously, no teacher ever mentioned anything like that. Even the school books use German puntuation on English texts!

And now suddenly people on the net are hitting me over the head with all those weird new rules I never knew existed -- quotation mark rules that make no sense, the fact that dashes are supposed to look different from hyphens, and now two spaces after a period, and no "and" and "but" at the beginning of a sentence, the hell? -- and I'm flailing helplessly, because this is just coming out of nowhere. English is weird.

Which is a rambly way of saying, I use one space.
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