Two spaces vs. one space?

[Munchkin03]

Originally Posted by honeychile

The only person to insist that I switch to one space between sentences is such a disgusting cretin that I would have to have a thunderbolt to ever consider using one.SPACESPACEI will continure in my present form until the day I die.

Love it! I was taught by my parents to use two spaces after a period, and one after a comma, and I will continue doing so. Another pet punctuation peeve of mine is the omission of a comma immediately before the "and" in a list. This is a source of controversy at my office.

[agzg]

Originally Posted by Munchkin03

Love it! I was taught by my parents to use two spaces after a period, and one after a comma, and I will continue doing so. Another pet punctuation peeve of mine is the omission of a comma immediately before the "and" in a list. This is a source of controversy at my office.

Ahhh the series comma debate. Have you seen Eats, Shoots & Leaves?

[DSTRen13]

Originally Posted by Munchkin03

Another pet punctuation peeve of mine is the omission of a comma immediately before the "and" in a list. This is a source of controversy at my office.

I was always taught that, in a list, the commas belong as follows: item a, item b, item c, item d and item e. Of course, commas are extremely controversial in general around here - in college, a common complaint amongst all the professors was that Georgia public schools (K-12) teach an overuse of commas. (Weirder still, since moving to my current city in Georgia, I've discovered that everyone who grew up here learned the strangest capitalization rules I've ever seen. It's like they think they're German.)

[Lil' Hannah]

Originally Posted by Munchkin03

Another pet punctuation peeve of mine is the omission of a comma immediately before the "and" in a list. This is a source of controversy at my office.

Who gives a eff about an Oxford comma?