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RE: Okay, I guess I'm guilty. Who else here thinks two spacing is correct?
April 21, 2014 at 4:41 pm
(April 21, 2014 at 1:42 pm)Cato Wrote: I was taught two spaces, because I learned to type on a typewriter.
^^This. I still double space after a period, but I think it does strip out the extra space like rasetsu said. I can't help it, I learned to write when people used this ancient invention called paper.
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RE: Okay, I guess I'm guilty. Who else here thinks two spacing is correct?
April 21, 2014 at 7:05 pm
I learned to use two spaces in typing class. In Sweden we actually had this subject as a voluntary option.
When I got older, I realized there is no good reason to use two spaces. So I stopped. We also learned other pointless habits, like adding one or two spaces at the start of every new paragraph. I kept this habit for many years until editors and layout people started complaining about it. It was actually quite hard to shake.
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RE: Okay, I guess I'm guilty. Who else here thinks two spacing is correct?
April 21, 2014 at 7:10 pm
Two spaces after a full stop? I've never even heard of such a thing. Definitely, totally, wrong.
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RE: Okay, I guess I'm guilty. Who else here thinks two spacing is correct?
April 21, 2014 at 7:11 pm
I two space. But not to worry - I'll change when everyone else does. 
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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.
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RE: Okay, I guess I'm guilty. Who else here thinks two spacing is correct?
April 21, 2014 at 7:26 pm
The single space is one of my many pet peeves.
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RE: Okay, I guess I'm guilty. Who else here thinks two spacing is correct?
April 21, 2014 at 7:37 pm
(April 21, 2014 at 7:10 pm)NoraBrimstone Wrote: Two spaces after a full stop? I've never even heard of such a thing. Definitely, totally, wrong.
Wrong wing wrong!
I definitely don't get the point. I can only guess it is an artifact of a time when monospace fonts were a lot more common, such as with typewritten documents. It doesn't really serve any functional purpose now, that I can tell.
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RE: Okay, I guess I'm guilty. Who else here thinks two spacing is correct?
April 21, 2014 at 7:42 pm
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RE: Okay, I guess I'm guilty. Who else here thinks two spacing is correct?
April 21, 2014 at 7:52 pm
I did get marked points off for one-spacing by my Nazi Aeronautics Prof at the Academy. He also marked me off 5 points on a 40 page lab report because twice I used the phrase "the data was" rather than the correct "the data were." How dare I.
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RE: Okay, I guess I'm guilty. Who else here thinks two spacing is correct?
April 21, 2014 at 8:04 pm
(April 21, 2014 at 7:52 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: I did get marked points off for one-spacing by my Nazi Aeronautics Prof at the Academy. He also marked me off 5 points on a 40 page lab report because twice I used the phrase "the data was" rather than the correct "the data were." How dare I.
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