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September 13, 2009 9:39 am
La ponctuation, parent pauvre…. In French, from the blog of the copy editors of Le Monde. «Y a-t-il une espace avant et après tel signe ? Ici, la règle fait presque l'unanimité. Un obstacle, cependant : la typographie distingue deux types d'espace entre les mots et entre les signes. »
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September 13, 2009 10:43 pm
First, I was blissfully ignorant of these typographic distinctions between English and French. I have been typing French incorrectly lnger than most readers of this post have been alive.
Second, it strikes me as a tremendous oversight that L'Academie Francaise neglected this aspect of oversight of the language. It seems a bit out of character. But perhaps typography was thought of as a less prestigious pursuit.