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[–] Fades@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Why the space before the punctuation

[–] inlandempire@jlai.lu 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)
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[–] inlandempire@jlai.lu 1 points 4 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