05-09-2003, 10:40 PM
Amaethon,May 9 2003, 09:37 PM Wrote:Also as a bit of trivia Ill add that in ages past the greeks/romans? didnt use punctuation at all, didnt have capital or lower case letters, and alot of times didnt put spaces between thier words.I would prefer to believe that, in the last two millenia, we have made some sort of progress in communicating clearly with the written word.
But then at work, I keep telling beginning programmers "Whitespace is your friend"...
BTW, I am one of the bleeding heart, feel-good types on the Lounge, and I don't think Shadow's post was uncalled for. It wasn't just the punctuation - I believe it was more the "nice site on here, is there a clan or anything based on this site? ive read alot of the blurb, but i dont have that long so cant read it all" that triggered the reply.
Nicodemus Phaulkon Wrote:Further: Take your trivia and shove it.That was a bit uncalled for. I happen to like trivia in it's proper place. And besides, you're wrong. We don't throw them to the moderators - we throw them to Pete.
-- CH