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Originally posted by Grampy BobbyPhew, I was concerned that it might an irrational fear of pain followed by a life threatening diagnosis, I can do guilt, guilt is easy. 🙂
[b]GUILT!
[Hearing footsteps when there are none and leaves falling when there are no deciduous trees adorning the ground.
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"The printed semicolon is 500 years old, dating from the first printings of Greek and Roman classics by the pioneering Italian typesetter Also Manucci in the 1490s. The mark first appears in printed English in the late 1600s."
(Ned Halley, Dictionary of Modern English Grammar. Wordsworth, 2005)
You may be interested in this dissertation on the history of punctuation, which mentions both colons and semicolons:
http://grammar.about.com/od/punctuationandmechanics/a/PunctuationHistory.htm
Originally posted by KewpieI do it by habit, as a way to separate different trains of thought. A bunch of different ideas all squished together in a single paragraph makes for difficult reading in my opinion.
It's such a pain to read a post that's got a white space after each line of text. Is it really necessary to do it? I'm a typist from way back and we would never have been allowed to do it anywhere but draft manuscripts and legal documents where handwritten insertions were frequent. White space between paragraphs certainly, but not between single lines, PLEASE.
Whatever my preference is, I would never insist that everyone else conform to it.
As far as whether or not it's proper to frequently start new paragraphs, it's certainly not a major breaking of any grammatical rules. In fact, I think this forum is rather refreshing in that most people communicate with excellent grammar.
Most other forums have a much lower median age of participants, and the LEET-speak-whatever-it-is dialect is so grossly pitiful with regard to grammar, I can hardly stand it.
I'm sorry for you that the frequent double-spacing is an apparent pet peeve but it's a habit I can't break.
Originally posted by sumydidCertainly Nordlys would never insist either.
I do it by habit, as a way to separate different trains of thought. A bunch of different ideas all squished together in a single paragraph makes for difficult reading in my opinion.
Whatever my preference is, I would never insist that everyone else conform to it.
As far as whether or not it's proper to frequently start new paragraphs, it's cert ...[text shortened]... u that the frequent double-spacing is an apparent pet peeve but it's a habit I can't break.
+1 to you.