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1. Coolidge
   kedavis

   @kedavis

   6:32 PM EDT ⋅ Apr 5, 2020

   jemcnamara63 (View Comment):

   An excellent response by POTUS.

   A side note to this letter and submitted for everyone’s pleasure (thank you Rod Serling); I had a rather interesting exchange a few weeks ago with Brent Orwell who is a Resident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a rather staunch objector of President Trump. The context of the exchange centered around Mr. Orwell’s position that President Trump is nothing more than a bully and operates like a petulant child. Therefore I surmised quickly that he was not fond of the our President’s style, candor and likely a host of other character aspects.

   What I found intriguing with our exchange was the lack of appreciation for policy or function, and a dogged commitment to form, presentation and a sentiment of complete contempt for the President and his style and approach. To which I responded; the clash of ideology and culture was not created by President Trump but rather was revealed by the President and has him actively engaged in that confrontation. Which I felt to be both a reasonable and dare I say logical response.

   …

   Are you sure his name was Brent Orwell, not Jonah Goldberg?  Perhaps that’s a nom de plume or something?

    

2. Coolidge
   TBA

   @RobtGilsdorf

   11:09 PM EDT ⋅ Apr 5, 2020

   Skyler (View Comment):

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   * I rise up in favor of the double space after a period,

   The one-spacers don’t seem to value what I like. I like to have a pronounced space after the end of a sentence. To me, it makes reading easier. Also, when composing the two spaces put my brain into a new-sentence mode and helps me write with what I hope is better clarity.

   There is no reason not to do two spaces. There is more reason to do three or four spaces than there is to only do one space.

   I think we should use carriage return after every sentence.

   Then call it poetic.

   and in the spirit of e e cummings, let’s abandon all the capital letters. ok? i mean really.

   we could also eliminate all punctuation altogether so that everything would look like either james joyce who i dont like at all or the opening to a childs christmas in wales which im inordinately fond of

   andthenperhapswecouldgetridofspacesbetweenwordstoobecauseafterallwhatcouldbemoreefficientthanthat

   prettymuchlikethewaterratinthewindinthewillowswhenhewasaskedwhatsinthepicnichamperandherespondedcoldtonguecoldhamcoldbeefpickledgherkinssaladfrenchrollscresssandwichespottedmeatgingerbeerlemonadesodawater

   ithinkkennethgrahamewasontosomethingdontyou

   Wasn’t it Greek or Latin that originally had no spacing between words? That’s hard to imagine, now.

   Both.

   They were probably shaped not to run into each other as much as English which can pretty much start or end a word with any letter and has a lot of letters that wear different hats depending on who they’re hanging out with.

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   She

   @She

   

   4:57 AM EDT ⋅ Apr 6, 2020

   TBA (View Comment):

   Skyler (View Comment):

   kedavis (View Comment):

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   Skyler (View Comment):

   She (View Comment):
   * I rise up in favor of the double space after a period,

   The one-spacers don’t seem to value what I like. I like to have a pronounced space after the end of a sentence. To me, it makes reading easier. Also, when composing the two spaces put my brain into a new-sentence mode and helps me write with what I hope is better clarity.

   There is no reason not to do two spaces. There is more reason to do three or four spaces than there is to only do one space.

   I think we should use carriage return after every sentence.

   Then call it poetic.

   and in the spirit of e e cummings, let’s abandon all the capital letters. ok? i mean really.

   we could also eliminate all punctuation altogether so that everything would look like either james joyce who i dont like at all or the opening to a childs christmas in wales which im inordinately fond of

   andthenperhapswecouldgetridofspacesbetweenwordstoobecauseafterallwhatcouldbemoreefficientthanthat

   prettymuchlikethewaterratinthewindinthewillowswhenhewasaskedwhatsinthepicnichamperandherespondedcoldtonguecoldhamcoldbeefpickledgherkinssaladfrenchrollscresssandwichespottedmeatgingerbeerlemonadesodawater

   ithinkkennethgrahamewasontosomethingdontyou

   Wasn’t it Greek or Latin that originally had no spacing between words? That’s hard to imagine, now.

   Both.

   They were probably shaped not to run into each other as much as English which can pretty much start or end a word with any letter and has a lot of letters that wear different hats depending on who they’re hanging out with.

   Thai does not put spaces between words in its written language.  There is an extraordinarily long list of when it’s allowed/required to use a space in written Thai, and other things too–Thai is a tonal language, so written Thai has marks representing tone to indicate differences between between words that would otherwise look the same; there is a complex system of which pronouns to use, depending on who you’re speaking to or about; verb construction is very different from what we’re used to; and there are different words permitted depending (largely) on one’s social status.  All these things, in addition to its 40+ consonants and 30+ vowels make written Thai a very difficult language to master for Westerners, although the literacy rate in Thailand itself is very high.  Thank goodness most Thais speak at least rudimentary English, and that most of the street and market signs have the English equivalent spelled out on them, because it’s a very helpless feeling, when one doesn’t speak the language, to find that one can’t even puzzle out what words “sound” like from their written equivalent because it doesn’t use the Roman alphabet. I’ve always been interested in, and fairly good at, languages, and I find the complexities of  Thai interesting, but baffling.