Small digression from Re: languages vs dialects

[Alys of Foxdale <foxdale@wolfstar.com>]

Poster: Alys of Foxdale <foxdale@wolfstar.com>

Scripsit Lady Katriona of Northwoods:

> >Hmm.  You can already see new words forming out of acronyms on the Internet
> >- BTW, IMHO, YIS, and so on.  Won't it be interesting to watch the
> >development of "Electronic English"?

Et respondet Julien de Montfort:

> Absolutely.  I remember a friend of mine who is still in college was told
> that it is now acceptable for term papers, etc., and other standard written
> reports to use a skipped line to indicate a new paragraph as opposed to
> indenting.  I know when I was in college some seven years ago that was
> frowned on, and I have to suspect that the influence of the net in general
> and the web in particular had a lot to do with that shift... ;-)

I don't know whether email had anything to do with the acceptance of
the style, but the web assuredly did not.

That style is called Block Style, and it has been in regular use in
business writing for at least the last dozen years, and probably
longer.

   Alys of Foxdale        | Vert, on a fess between three trees
foxdale@wolfstar.com      |     argent, a fox passant gules.

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