Something that puzzles me

[Wales-Bales]

Re: Something that puzzles me

I don’t have any mates on this board and I missed what he said , and I’m taking the piss out of you , or don’t you get irony?
(Checks space between end of sentence and question mark)

I thought you were my friend :cry:

[lardy]

Re: Something that puzzles me

This could be an interesting thread, there's loads of areas where it could lead. Handwriting (Mine is so bad that i can't even read it myself) Why are girls more likely to have massive handwriting? I'm reading this book at the moment, 'Four Kings' It's about Roberto Duran, Marvin Hagler, Tommy Hearns and Sugar Ray Leonard. Within a few paragraphs the author will reference about three or four people-A promoter, a Trainer, another Boxer, an opponent. I can't keep up with it, there's no way that i can remember all of those names in such a short passage.When i do come to reading about them again a few pages in, then i have to go back and re read the passage that originally told me who they were. Absolute nightmare. Anyone else have the same problem when reading books with loads of detail......like names....

This seems like bad writing or editing to me. They should expect that an average reader won't have the same engagement as them in the story to know it inside out, and they should be able to put in clues and reminders that are subtle enough to not be distracting.

But that's why I prefer books over kindles and online reading. Easy to flip back.

[Wales-Bales]

Re: Something that puzzles me

This could be an interesting thread, there's loads of areas where it could lead. Handwriting (Mine is so bad that i can't even read it myself) Why are girls more likely to have massive handwriting? I'm reading this book at the moment, 'Four Kings' It's about Roberto Duran, Marvin Hagler, Tommy Hearns and Sugar Ray Leonard. Within a few paragraphs the author will reference about three or four people-A promoter, a Trainer, another Boxer, an opponent. I can't keep up with it, there's no way that i can remember all of those names in such a short passage.When i do come to reading about them again a few pages in, then i have to go back and re read the passage that originally told me who they were. Absolute nightmare. Anyone else have the same problem when reading books with loads of detail......like names....

Take some notes or draw a chart.

[RichardM]

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This is irrelevant to the space being introduced before a question mark but wasn't it the case that typists in the analogue era used to use two spaces after a full stop and before the next sentence was started?

Yes. Not just in the anologue era. When I first used a pc based word processing program in the 90s. I carried on doing it until about 2018 when a youngster who was proof reading something for me pointed out that "we don't do that anymore".

[Eric the Half a Bee]

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It's a good point, I often do it at the the end of sentences with ? and !, I know it's wrong but it stands out more !

Maybe to you. It just looks daft to me.

[North Cardiff Blue]

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Maybe to you. It just looks daft to me.

Who cares !

Why don't you do some stats on it, you must be missing them !

[Taunton Blue Genie]

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To follow TLG's original post, apart from Sludge it looks like personal choice splits down familiar lines though. Free thinkers like TWGL1, Pipster, NinianClark and RonnieBird invariably use the punctuation space. Perhaps that's the pathway to gifted and talented enlightenment?

Well that's one poster....

[Wales-Bales]

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Who cares !

Why don't you do some stats on it, you must be missing them !

I do ........!

[blue matt]

Re: Something that puzzles me

Welcome to Cardiff City message board

Home of Cardiff City, in the football lad culture world, its "lads" feared by many, respected by all, a team that played at Ninian park which Rio Ferdinand once described as the most hostile ground in the world when he was asked "did he fear returning to Turkey with Leeds? No, you forget I played at Ninian Park last season, the most hostile ground in the world.”

Look where we are now :thumbup:

[TWGL1]

Re: Something that puzzles me

Welcome to Cardiff City message board

Home of Cardiff City, in the football lad culture world, its "lads" feared by many, respected by all, a team that payed at Ninian park which Rio Ferdinand once described as the most hostile ground in the world when he was asked "did he fear returning to Turkey with Leeds? No, you forget I played at Ninian Park last season, the most hostile ground in the world.”

Look where we are now :thumbup:

I don’t think many on here fitted into that particular category you’re referring to.

[cyril evans awaydays]

Re: Something that puzzles me

Welcome to Cardiff City message board

Home of Cardiff City, in the football lad culture world, its "lads" feared by many, respected by all, a team that payed at Ninian park which Rio Ferdinand once described as the most hostile ground in the world when he was asked "did he fear returning to Turkey with Leeds? No, you forget I played at Ninian Park last season, the most hostile ground in the world.”

Look where we are now :thumbup:

Yeah fearless....... what happened to Dembe?

[Tuerto]

Re: Something that puzzles me

Welcome to Cardiff City message board

Home of Cardiff City, in the football lad culture world, its "lads" feared by many, respected by all, a team that payed at Ninian park which Rio Ferdinand once described as the most hostile ground in the world when he was asked "did he fear returning to Turkey with Leeds? No, you forget I played at Ninian Park last season, the most hostile ground in the world.”

Look where we are now :thumbup:

Yup, reading and all that stuff. I'm off out to kick someones head in.

[Citizen's Nephew]

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Yup, reading and all that stuff. I'm off out to kick someones head in.

You can smash their heads in with the complete works of Shakespeare. We’re Cardiff City we doth what we wanteth.

[RichardM]

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I don’t think many on here fitted into that particular category you’re referring to.

I was there and made plenty of noise but I don't know if Rio found me hostile.

[Wales-Bales]

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Alan Turing would have packed his bag and ****ed off home after reading one of LOM's efforts.

The Enigma machine only output letters.