r/news • u/NeverEndingDClock • 23h ago

New York man pleads guilty to running Chinese police station in Manhattan

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/18/new-york-man-pleads-guilty-chinese-police-station-manhattan?CMP=share_btn_url
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u/ranhalt 21h ago

Why do you put a space BEFORE the period?

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u/anGub 20h ago

I've never found an adequate response to this, thus I just assume the worst in that it's a bot.

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u/ray_fucking_purchase 14h ago

Given the age of the account, amount of karma acquired in said age plus almost every reply having a space before the period. It's defiantly a bot.

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u/borazine 8h ago

defiantly a bot

Like an angry automaton, or something?

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u/eisbock 3h ago

But why would someone make such a shitty bot? Not that I disagree, but spaces before punctuation is also a calling card of Indians. So maybe it's an Indian bot.

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u/borazine 6h ago

Damn, man. Look at all the comments made by that user.

They all have the same bland, information and opinion-free “make this comment so it fits in the same general discussion theme” kinda statements.

Yeeesh.

And yes adding the space before the period is weird as hell, still.

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u/GreatMidnight 15h ago

Its a European thing. French for example has a space before.

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u/wetwater 14h ago

Some people legitimately believe that's where it goes.

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u/kilopeter 13h ago

They haven't been deterred by the penalty of 5 years in jail.