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I wonder if this has parallels in subconscious email formatting? Weird line breaks in emails used to really bug me until I realised most people were composing inside an email program that only showed them a reduced width editor, but because I wasn't used to formatting myself it took a long time for me to get used to things like forum posts, where the lines continue over and you don't think much about it unless you are making a sylistic point


Oh there is always a certain group of users whose posts had weird sentence structure, because they'd press return in a <textarea> after every line.




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