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> or leave spaces before punctuation marks I've picked up the habit of doing this (in chat messages at least) from working with a lot of Europeans for years (I
by RheingoldRiver 5y ago
> or leave spaces before punctuation marks
I've picked up the habit of doing this (in chat messages at least) from working with a lot of Europeans for years (I'm American). I like how it gives extra emphasis to question & exclamation marks.
- dredmorbius 5y agoThis was standard practice in English-language print through about 1800, as I've discovered reading numerous older texts (in original printings). The practice seems to have been preserved longer in the case of a subset of punctuation, typically semicolons and colons. Another practice I find ... jarring ... is of not putting spaces around em dashes in text. I find "word --- word" reads far more sensibly than "word---word". The former clearly indicates a bran in text, the latter might be mistaken for a compound word (though from context this is virtually always clearly not the case).