[duxuser] Re: Quirky things (was Re: Other Odd Symbols)
- From: "Steve Dresser" <s.dresser@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2008 10:25:37 -0500
Well, George, I guess there's no end to the liberties people can (and will)
take. And while we're on the subject, I used to get a braille magazine
produced in the U.K. in which new paragraphs were delineated by two spaces
instead of a new line as is done here in the U.S. Was that also done to
save paper?
Steve
----- Original Message -----
From: "George Bell" <george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 04:19
Subject: [duxuser] Re: Quirky things (was Re: Other Odd Symbols)
In the main, Steve, as Kathy has pointed out, print users can be a
sloppy bunch at best, and downright careless at worst.
I used to blame a lot of this kind of thing on, believe it or not,
war-time paper saving efforts, especially here in the U.K. We were
taught by our teachers NEVER to put a blank line between paragraphs,
and always indent paragraphs. One used far more abbreviations
(different from acronyms) to save space. So for example, we always
wrote "paras" as opposed to "paragraphs".
Then the Word processor came along - but that another whole story.
Then we have the fancy pants brigade where a TV program called
"NUMBERS" appears as "NUMB3ERS" (Yes that is a number 3 in the middle
of the word.) The pop group "ABBA" where the first letter B faces
backwards.
George.
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