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What era in time do these people think R's are trying to conserve to, after or before civil rights?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

whose convention?

Standard convention taught in every school and observed in every print we read?

I've never seen a convention in English where a space doesn't separate a period and whatever follows: no instance considered correct where

They write a sentence.A period ends that sentence.Space is omitted.Next sentence follows.

See how jarring that looks? Obscene.

Though if you've seen a practice like that in active production out in the field, then I'd welcome to see it. That'd be new.

[–] AA5B 1 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Yet lists can be special

  1. markup is way over sensitive

  2. So even if I use period then space as a delimiter

  3. Maybe I spaced it out

  4. Which works everywhere else