RE: Okay, I guess I'm guilty. Who else here thinks two spacing is correct?
April 21, 2014 at 7:20 pm
(April 21, 2014 at 9:47 am)whateverist Wrote: http://www.slate.com/articles/technology...aders.html
from the article Wrote:Typing two spaces after a period is totally, completely, utterly, and inarguably wrong.
No I definitely do it and I'm fairly certain I was taught to do so at some point in my dim past. The author goes on to say leaving two spaces between sentences is very wide spread and that the folks who do it tend to feel righteous about it.
Just wondering what people here do and how they feel about it. In particular, I wonder if anyone else who offends the gods of sentence spacing as I do can recall where they learned to do so.
I think it varies for a number of reasons, the main one is the media used. Old style typesetting used double spaces and this was carried over to the typewriter. Modern media has given us more options including larger single spaces and no space at all.
Basically there's no right or wrong, it's an aesthetic thing.
MM
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"I think I use the term “radical” rather loosely, just for emphasis. If you describe yourself as “atheist,” some people will say, “Don’t you mean ‘agnostic’?” I have to reply that I really do mean atheist, I really do not believe that there is a god; in fact, I am convinced that there is not a god (a subtle difference). I see not a shred of evidence to suggest that there is one ... etc., etc. It’s easier to say that I am a radical atheist, just to signal that I really mean it, have thought about it a great deal, and that it’s an opinion I hold seriously." - Douglas Adams (and I echo the sentiment)
