"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
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As I mentioned in the previous message, this -fact- was demonstrated to
me
by a printer while he was setting type on an old printing press on the
university campus where I studied Journalism.

History is not subject to demonstration.

Nor is it subject to some usenet geek deciding without supporting evidence
what's urban legend and not.

If you think it's an urban legend, than show me what you have. Otherwise,
as a graduate of the School of Journalism, I'll give folks the same advice
the pilots have been giving you out here; don't stick your nose in stuff
you don't know unless you've got something to demonstrate that you do, in
fact, know it. I'll take an actual printing press operator's word over
yours as quickly as I'll take an pilot's. Sorry. Experience and credential
still mean more to me than something you might have read on the internet.

The fact that a printer might be able to cause the event in question does
not mean that it was
the motivation for placing periods inside quotation marks.

Thanks. If I need your analysis of American grammar and print history, I'll
ask for it.


-c