Please, put whitespace inside numbers

Please, put whitespace inside numbers(3quarksdaily.com)

5 points by nitin-pai 2 years ago | 3 comments

TFA lost credibility when it started with a series of unnecessary and vicious swipes at monasteries and 9th century Ireland. You don't need to be bigoted to promote an idea about typography.

nitin-pai 2 years ago | |

There is no bigotry in the post and the references to monasteries are not even disparaging.

NoZebra120vClip 2 years ago | | |

> unlike most people, you can read

> another long day

> bitterly cold scriptorium

> city of fleas

> parchment, which stinks

> candle, which stinks

Author managed to disparage literacy rates (literacy was mostly unnecessary in the 9th c.), monks' work ethic, their resilience to a cooler climate, their closeness to animals, and their good stewardship of animal products. Author paints a fake word-picture of disgusting and wretched conditions that can be blamed on the monks themselves, or the patriarchy or something. I can't think of any way this single paragraph could be more disparaging of the whole scenario.