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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Why the space before the punctuation

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Yeah haha it's really weird and I tend to switch between the "normal" way and the "french" way without noticing. Basically in french the rule is that if your symbol is "tall" ( ! , ? , brackets, semicolon, I think dashes as well...) it needs to be preceded by a space