Space After Periods (1993)

Re:Space After Periods (1993) by mannykannot on Monday July 10, 2023 @10:24PM (#36675723)

Bravo! I like your subtle sense of humor - i.e. not so subtle that it goes right over my head, but barely.

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Re:Space After Periods (1993) by distcs on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @05:15AM (#36692088)

The humor flew right over my head. Care to explain?

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Re:Space After Periods (1993) by distcs on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @10:33AM (#36695120)

I'm beginning to doubt if there was any humor there in the first place.

> When in Rome, do as the Romans do.

I mean if it had been a French city I could say that a pun about French Spacing is there in the joke. But Rome isn't a French city. So still very confused if and what the joke is.

French Spacing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_sentence_spacing#Fr...

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Re:Space After Periods (1993) by mannykannot on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @11:23PM (#36704663)

My apology for a slow response, but I took the phrase 'when in Rome...' to be a reference to the scripto continua style seen on Roman monuments.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scriptio_continua

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Re:Space After Periods (1993) by distcs on Thursday July 13, 2023 @06:15AM (#36707016)

thanks for the reply!

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