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<blockquote data-quote="niolo" data-source="post: 2378970" data-attributes="member: 20007">I must agree with Abstractions points. Writers generally don't know printing conventions and they really don't need to know them. As a former proofer, designer, and production artist I've had to clean up text to prepare for print; which included removing extra spaces after periods. We also inserted the comma prior to the &quot;and&quot; in sequences, that being the method we chose for clarity.Additionally, much of our grammar conventions ARE products of opinion which have become codified over the years. Why is a prepostion not supposed to begin a sentence, because someone deconstructed the word &quot;pre&quot; &quot;position&quot; to mean that it must come before another word. Not so. There are many instances of these in our language since English borrows a great deal from many other languages (try constructing a sentence comprised of only Anglo/Saxon words). History and opinion are buried in our words and grammar conventions.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="niolo, post: 2378970, member: 20007"] I must agree with Abstractions points. Writers generally don't know printing conventions and they really don't need to know them. As a former proofer, designer, and production artist I've had to clean up text to prepare for print; which included removing extra spaces after periods. We also inserted the comma prior to the "and" in sequences, that being the method we chose for clarity. Additionally, much of our grammar conventions ARE products of opinion which have become codified over the years. Why is a prepostion not supposed to begin a sentence, because someone deconstructed the word "pre" "position" to mean that it must come before another word. Not so. There are many instances of these in our language since English borrows a great deal from many other languages (try constructing a sentence comprised of only Anglo/Saxon words). History and opinion are buried in our words and grammar conventions. [/QUOTE]

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