Ardith Hinton:
Do you mean double spacing between sentences?
Yes. Opinions are divided nowadays WRT the issue, but
it matters to me because my audience in E_T includes many people
who are not native speakers of English & for whom the added white
space could be helpful. I hear from the employees at the bank &
other local businesses that they often feel frustrated because
whoever compiled the software they're using has never done
*their* job .. and I find myself in much the same position. Yes,
I know what others mean either way. Like you, however, I don't
give up on traditional methods without learning how they worked &
how they might still be of use to us.
Remember the book about witchcraft that the doctor shows to the
heroine in Suspiria? It has that double spacing between sentences,
and it looks good!
Years ago my parents taught me to "reduce, re-use, and recycle"
before we had a slogan like that to induce whomever to accept
what their elders could have told them. :-Q
Life was slower in the past, and many technical innovations were
gained not so much by disciplined engineering and research,
but by hard and painful trial and error, like groping in the dark,
through several generations of masters and craftsmen. Thomas Eddison
wrote about his method that failure is the discovery another of
way that does not work. This approach is not always inferrior in
that in can lead to inventions that modern engineers, going by the
more direct route, overlook.
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