i fixed the question. for people who do so, is it because your native language does so, like french? or is it because of stylistic choice?
like “hello ! how are you ?” i know a polish speaker who does that
It is the orthographic norm for some languages, i.e. the only correct way to spell.
French is like that. Any double punctuation symbol gets a space beforehand.
Ah bon ? Mais il fait pourtant beau aujourd’hui !
Écoute ça : Thomas entre dans le magasin ; il en ressort avec, entre autre, un cadeau.
that makes sense, it’s why i wonder if most people who do that are french speakers
Maybe for the same reason so many people do not capitalize the first word in their sentences.
i do this when writing in a hurry on my phone
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It was the standard English printed style in the US and UK from the 1860s until the early 20th century, gradually phasing out by the 1950s.
For printers with variable spaces, it was typical to use a hair space before the punctuation and an em space after.
For more details, see this article on the history of sentence spacing.
And some people don’t use a space at all!They type like this.Argh.
Or they use commas instead of full stops for ellipses,
oh my gosh, i’ve seen that!! i wonder why 🤔
English isn’t their first language usually
The rules of where to make spaces variate in different languages, so maybe some people do as they learned in their native language.
ahhh
Good question, does anyone know ?
Smartphone keyboards are multilingual now. I can set it to French and autocorrect in English. But if there’s a bug, it may be confused I guess.
Uhm !
mine autocorrects to german sometimes. I don’t even speak german
For me, it’s that my keyboard sometimes autocorrects to French.
ohhh
i do this when the word(s) before the punctuation should be easy to copy+paste, like “did you install figlet ?” so they don’t accidentally get the question mark into the copied text
I only do it when my thumb accidentally hits spacebar instead of the period button right next to it, and I don’t care enough to go back and fix it.
I have never seen anyone put a space before a question mark! I’m curious to find out now too lol
Not stylistic, it’s the language.
I don’t mean french, i mean in english
