How does one, these days of seemingly every lasting youth with women of 60 having breasts that a twenty year old woman would envy, and 70 year old man have a head of hair that would make a twenty year old Bulgar wonder if he was going bald, know that one is old and past his or her cash in date? The answer is simple: If one, while writing, indents the first sentence of a paragraph. If you do that you might as well start making payments on a grave near your Civil War ancestors simply because, according to modern usage, you are about as modern as Blackjack Pershing chasing Moros in the Philippines or Gordon in the Sudan.
Apparently White and Strunk and Fowler have been replaced by the linguistic and stylistic niceties dictated by Microsoft, Apple, et al. In other words, the style of the great English language has been taken over by mouth breathing nerds. What a shame! Keep your typewriter and use it!
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