i fixed the question. for people who do so, is it because your native language does so, like french? or is it because of stylistic choice?
like “hello ! how are you ?” i know a polish speaker who does that
i fixed the question. for people who do so, is it because your native language does so, like french? or is it because of stylistic choice?
like “hello ! how are you ?” i know a polish speaker who does that
It was the standard English printed style in the US and UK from the 1860s until the early 20th century, gradually phasing out by the 1950s.
For printers with variable spaces, it was typical to use a hair space before the punctuation and an em space after.
For more details, see this article on the history of sentence spacing.