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I'm really weirded out by the lack of spaces following ".", ",", and ")", as well as preceding "(", in a lot of Indians' online writing. You might see a parent
by schoen 5y ago
I'm really weirded out by the lack of spaces following ".", ",", and ")", as well as preceding "(", in a lot of Indians' online writing.
You might see a parenthetical(with no space adjacent to the parentheses at all).Or a full stop,and then a sentence immediately following it with no interruption.This looks incredibly strange to me.Essentially I imagine it's as though the punctuation is felt to contain its own built-in spacing or something.
Is it taught this way in school in India? Does it appear this way in professionally published books in English?
- alok-g 5y agoNote: I'm from India. Indeed, a lot of Indian people do not know the punctuation rules. I frequently educate them about it. Some however refuse to correct themselves. It is not taught that way in India. However, I am seeing even English teachers developing these habits. Books, print media, written by Indian authors is usually fine as of now. However, the way it is going, I would not be surprised to see this style of writing becoming a standard as a local dialect over the years. :-(
- tchalla 5y ago> would not be surprised to see this style of writing becoming a standard as a local dialect over the years. :-( I want to address the ":-(" in your comment. Languages evolve like humans decide. English is not what it was today that it was 100 years ago. It won't be the same 100years from now. I, for one, look forward to the rich diversity.
- alok-g 5y agoI agree overall. The diversity over the time leads to innovations too.
- eyelidlessness 5y agoWeirdly this bothers me in code but in prose I just breeze past it without a concern.