(taking a break between editing things)

[deird1]

When I am Evil Overlord, I will:

- have world-wide seminars on correct use of the comma.
- use unspeakable punishments involving scorpions on people who put two spaces in between sentences.
- make the Oxford comma compulsory.
- threaten more scorpions for people who waffle on rather than using plain English.
- have an elite army of Ninja Punctuators, who will assassinate all people who use semi-colons without knowing what they're for.

Comments

[curiouswombat]

By who?

All our admin. and government staff still put two spaces after a full stop. So do I. So does my daughter who was taught much more recently. It was very clearly required in all the information to d with both of her degrees.

So is the new, squashed up, version just an Australian thing?

[deird1]

Nope - I'm going by Hart's Rules, which is the Oxford standard.

[curiouswombat]

Ah - another Oxford affectation. I will free to ignore it and continue to write as I was taught. Which was, of course, by a Cambridge graduate.