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Message: <blockquote data-quote="reveal" data-source="post: 2369461" data-attributes="member: 1236">We are not dismissing standards. What we have done is quoted to you various style guides, including one you touted as "the Bible," and you still refused to even acknowledge that it is a matter of opinion. Even the University of Chicago Press, which publishes your "Bible," states that it "discourages" the use of multiple spaces after periods. It does not state that it is unprofessional to use multiple spaces.What we have been trying to say, and what you have been ignoring, is that punctuation is important. But because there are so many, many different guides out there, a person should find what their editor/professor/business prefers and use that style. My company has their own style guide; does that make them "wrong" if some of the styles it has decided upon to make our company's documentation and correspondence standard do not match what has been published in the Chicago Guide of Style or the MLA stylebook? Does it make every single piece of professional business documentation they have produced "amateurish?"Regardless of what you think, not all people who do not follow the guidelines that you think are correct are less professional than you are. I highly doubt that every single professional, published author would agree with what you think is correct. But, according to your logic, this makes them amateurs. To think that way is just asinine.</blockquote>