This is not a criticism merely a question to try and satisfy my curiosity.

I have noticed a number of posters to this forum always leave a space between the end of a sentence and either the question mark or the exclamation point.

These same poster don't leave a space for the comma or the period (full stop).

Can anyone explain why?

Come now Steve !, why aren't you naming and shaming these English language morons ?

At no point did I say anyone was a moron.

Please don't put words in my mouth.

I actually added lots of spaces in a pathetic attempt at comedy. It only looks like one in the post though, so it was a bit of a waste of time.

What do you mean
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Oops got caught editing.

It started out as a serious question.

Sure didn't take long to descend into chaos.

What is that in your avatar ? Is it one of those large 'cigar shaped objects' that you pilots like to talk about when you've hit the sauce?

Sorry...

Don't be.

It will likely more fun this way.

However I'd still like an explanation if anyone can give me one.

The french do it that way apparently.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Question_mark

Reading that I'm amazed to see things like this exist. Irony marks indeed....

The caviler use of ellipses and em dashes really gets my goat.

There's something rather splendidly ironic about the idea of an irony mark. Isn't the whole point of irony that it's something of an in-joke at the expense of the uninitiated who don't "get it"?

yeah - them cavilers think they can get away with anything, don't they....

... but I use them like.... - all - the - time!

But I can see why it would be needed in Canada and the US though.