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Standard convention taught in every school and observed in every print we read?
I've never seen a convention in English where a space doesn't separate a period and whatever follows: no instance considered correct where
See how jarring that looks? Obscene.
Though if you've seen a practice like that in active production out in the field, then I'd welcome to see it. That'd be new.
Yet lists can be special
markup is way over sensitive
So even if I use period then space as a delimiter
Maybe I spaced it out
Which works everywhere else