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jonny_eh on Oct 12, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why I Two-Space

If you capitalize the first word of each sentence it becomes rather obvious if you forget a period.

taybin on Oct 12, 2012 [–]

Since proper nouns are also capitalized, it is ambiguous and you can't script around it.

jonny_eh on Oct 12, 2012 | [–]

Then there's also context to fallback on, but that would require a human parser.

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