10-14-2009, 03:53 AM
Perhaps you might consider counseling your mechanic to "not be so anal".
I can understand the "right is right, wrong is wrong concept with respect to the orientation of a piston in a cylinder or the clearance of piston rings, the heat range of a spark plug, etc.
But applying such a concept to the spacing of a punctuation mark and the next letter seems more about choosing to follow accepted practices or not. I don't see any right-is-right about it.
Yeah a bunch of people now choose to use one space instead of two. Probably to save space, like the affectation of running words together without spaces in several aspects of the digital world. I still use two spaces because *I* like the way it looks and don't really care that it's fallen from favor by-- somebody.
I see most forums automatically remove the extra space. That's their choice, and I have none in that instance. But I still type it.
I can understand the "right is right, wrong is wrong concept with respect to the orientation of a piston in a cylinder or the clearance of piston rings, the heat range of a spark plug, etc.
But applying such a concept to the spacing of a punctuation mark and the next letter seems more about choosing to follow accepted practices or not. I don't see any right-is-right about it.
Yeah a bunch of people now choose to use one space instead of two. Probably to save space, like the affectation of running words together without spaces in several aspects of the digital world. I still use two spaces because *I* like the way it looks and don't really care that it's fallen from favor by-- somebody.
I see most forums automatically remove the extra space. That's their choice, and I have none in that instance. But I still type it.