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From: Mark Hill <mark_usenet@yahoo.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: [talk] Re: "I love Alberta Beef" Ascii art.
Date: 15 Jun 2003 13:29:45 GMT
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On 2003-06-15, 
 Rusty <russjunkmail@netscape.net> wrote:
>
> However, I now wonder if educators are even
> teaching the double space rule, which I learned
> in junior high school, but yet I don't recall
> it being taught in high school.  now it seems
> like it is beginning to act like a open ended
> rule which you can use either way.

It seems these days, grammar is not 
taught much in schools. I'm not too
sure why, but it seems to be a very 
common thing happening in the U.S.A 
and U.K at least. I'm sure I didn't 
learn a double space rule. I'll see
if my friend Google knows about it. 

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Mark Hill <mark_usenet@yahoo.co.uk>
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