Dortmund Reds?

[Woland]

Dude, I think you'll find he likes you to insert a space before exclamation marks.

 

[Frogfish]

I was typing on my phone, in the last paragraph the baby woke up.

I usually go back & correct the post before sending, but going & getting the screaming baby was more important than even the sanctity of the English language at that point in time!

I knew there had to be a good reason because that was not like you !

 

[Frogfish]

Dude, I think you'll find he likes you to insert a space before exclamation marks.

I do ! I really do !! I'm anal about that, I hate no spaces !

 

[tombrown]

http://english.stackexchange.com/qu...a-space-before-a-question-or-exclamation-mark

[article]In written English (mainly online) I often come across sentences ending with a question or an exclamation mark with a space before it. Is it always just an error or a typo? Or there are cases when it is a correct English, for example after closing parentheses or some other punctuation marks?

In English, it is always an error. There should be no space between a sentence and its ending punctuation, whether that's a period, a question mark, or an exclamation mark. There should also be no space before a colon, semicolon, or comma. The only punctuation mark that sometimes needs to be preceded by a space is a dash.

I see this error most often with people who never really learned to type. In handwriting, spacing is more, um, negotiable and subject to interpretation.

[/article]

 

[Le Chacal]

Kinda unrelated but kinda not.

There was a Yank on radio 5 the other day who said man City are in high level talks to set up a team in the us second division (bit like an alternative to mls cos there's no promotion/relegation, but with cash flow & Stadium/crowd attendance they may let you in mls) who will be called Manchester City Chicago/detroit/etc & play in their colours & loan players from man City.

He claimed quite a few other teams, esp ons with us owners were looking at doing the same.

So Boston Liverpool could exist one day.

*shudders*

Not new..
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/22615026

 

[Roopy]

Been to a few FC Tokyo games ... They do a pretty decent job, I remember I could here it being sung before the game way down the road when walking to the stadium.

 

[doctor_mac]

I do ! I really do !! I'm anal about that, I hate no spaces !

You realise that there shouldn't be a space, right?

 

[Frogfish]

http://english.stackexchange.com/qu...a-space-before-a-question-or-exclamation-mark

[article]In written English (mainly online) I often come across sentences ending with a question or an exclamation mark with a space before it. Is it always just an error or a typo? Or there are cases when it is a correct English, for example after closing parentheses or some other punctuation marks?

In English, it is always an error. There should be no space between a sentence and its ending punctuation, whether that's a period, a question mark, or an exclamation mark. There should also be no space before a colon, semicolon, or comma. The only punctuation mark that sometimes needs to be preceded by a space is a dash.

I see this error most often with people who never really learned to type. In handwriting, spacing is more, um, negotiable and subject to interpretation.

[/article]

I know that Tom. It's just that I hate it - it just doesn't look right to me ! With some fonts it looks like an l or an i at the end of the word. I'm going to start a petition to have a space before exclamation marks enforced 😉

 

[Frogfish]

You realise that there shouldn't be a space, right?

Beat me by less than a minute Doc. I do. See post above,

 

[tombrown]

There is the law of the land;
there is God's law;
and then there is the law of English punctuation.

Disregard the first two as much as you like, but wander from the straight and narrow of the third and you will surely burn in hell fire ! (sic)