# a very minor pitting. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 4, 2007, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-very-minor-pitting/386639 "2007-01-04T03:22:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Gukumatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/74df32/32.png) [@Gukumatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gukumatz)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2007, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-very-minor-pitting/386639/41 "2007-01-06T15:06:45Z")
[QUOTE=levdrakon] I wonder about the space before punctuation thing . Maybe people are accessing the boards through alternate devices ? They’re tapping it out on their cellphones ? [/QUOTE] Or maybe tap-dancing it in on keyboards? I dunno, it just seems plain lazy to me, whenever I see it. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2007, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-very-minor-pitting/386639/42 "2007-01-06T15:20:50Z")
[QUOTE=Chez Guevara] The plural of _apostrophe_ is _apostrophes_. [/QUOTE] One of my former proofreading clients would insist it’s _apostroph’ies_. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2007, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-very-minor-pitting/386639/43 "2007-01-06T15:27:49Z")
A hundred-and-ten percent. Just please don’t. ---
**Author:** ![Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heffalump_and_roo/32/7691_2.png) [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heffalump_and_Roo)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2007, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-very-minor-pitting/386639/44 "2007-01-08T05:27:26Z")
[QUOTE=Uncommon Sense] Really, my beef is using 9’s and 0’s instead of ('s and )'s. **You know who you are!!** [/QUOTE] I just saw the person doing it again. I remembered you said this, and it totally cracked me up. But now I’m wondering if it’s done on purpose? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2007, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-very-minor-pitting/386639/45 "2007-01-08T05:58:00Z")
[QUOTE=Contrapuntal] Oh yeah? Since when did ‘disappear’ get transitively verbed? [/QUOTE] It is usually people who are disappeared (by despotic governments, especially in South American countries, where it is a calque of “[desaparecidos](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desaparecidos)”), not objects in banal contexts. ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2007, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-very-minor-pitting/386639/46 "2007-01-08T13:17:36Z")
[QUOTE=Wile E] Yeah, it’s kind of annoying but I just say to myself “Look! e.e. cummings is posting! Cool!” [/QUOTE] Ha! This one makes my morning! Sailboat ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2007, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-very-minor-pitting/386639/47 "2007-01-08T15:07:58Z")
Hey, here’s another one.Drives me up the wall.How do you manage to hit the space bar between every word, but you just can’t manage to hit it after a period? Maybe that’s what all the people who put spaces before periods are doing… they’re trying to make up for the no-space morons. ---
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2007, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-very-minor-pitting/386639/48 "2007-01-08T15:44:58Z")
[QUOTE=Ethilrist] Maybe that’s what all the people who put spaces before periods are doing… they’re trying to make up for the no-space morons. [/QUOTE] No , then they would be posting like this . And , mostly , they don’t. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-very-minor-pitting/386639.md?page=2)