I write in comprehensible British/Australian English. I would be very unhappy to feel that this rendered my comments and opinions valueless. More to the point, even if I didn't, why would this deprive my opinions of value? Why are there spaces before your punctuation marks? Why is the final question mark omitted?

@Coffeo At my age , my vision is not what it used to be . I intentionally leave a space around my punctuation marks , so that I can actually see them . And you are correct , I should have put a question mark at the end of my last sentence , so , just like you , I have returned and edited my response . Thank you for pointing that out .

@Cast1es I've always wondered why you add the spaces in your punctuation. It confounds me every time and I find myself thinking about that -- wondering if it's a computer glitch, whether it is intentional -- and not on the content of your comment. So, thanks for shedding some light on it.

@Coffeo Perhaps I should have been more generic . If you can't even communicate , in the language of the country you were born and raised in , others will not value your opinion .

@Cast1es Thank you; I do like that comment much better than your first.

Punctuation is still inside the quotation marks -- at least in legal writing. I'm not speaking for book and magazine writers.

And I can remember when , " ain't ," wasn't in the dictionary and wasn't considered a correct word .

@Cast1es To my brain, it still isn't a word - dictionary be damned!

It's fun to watch the words added to the US English language and those taken out. I never agree with all of them.