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At my last job, a bunch of the older folks did not realize they had a "two spaces" habit.
It's a clear tell.
Saw this meme and thought I'd point that out.
I use two spaces and you are all "no cap fr fr skibidi Ohio fam."
Fuck off.
I'm over 40. I do what I want.
30s, and that's how I was taught to type, so...
29, and yeah: 12pt Times New Roman, double spaced lines max, and two spaces after the period always...
It's a major pet peeve of mine to see two spaces after a period.
If this is bugging you you deserve to be annoyed._ You're looking for reasons to be miserable._. Youβre doing it to yourself. _ You give your power away to easily.
Very interesting.Β Β Β I hadn't noticed that before.Β Β Β Something to consider.Β Β Β I'll keep an eye out for that. /s
I will not stop. And whining about it will make me double down.
Such a zoomer meme.
Holy shit the traffic on this post is crazy
We can also clearly tell that no one at your work cares and they probably think you're an annoying little shit.
Not 40, but I still do it. When learning to type on a computer in school it was a requirement. I donβt mind though because now when I do it, periods are automatically added for me in place of the first space.
Bingo. 44 yr old here. I blame Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing back in the early 90s. I still sometimes do the double space at work when I'm on a ~~typewriter~~ keyboard.
I love how this implies that all of us in the over 40 crowd are desperately trying to avoid βtellsβ about our age.
βOH GOD PLEASE LET THEM THINK IM 28!!! IβLL NEVER DOUBLE SPACE AGAIN!!! NO CAP IβM THE FIRE GOAT!! BET.β
I love that none of the commenters on this post extolling double-spacing actually have visible double-spacing in their comments.
I had a guy review a document I wrote go through and "correct" all of my spaces by adding another one.
I realize that I have a "two spaces" habit. I have no problem with it. I find the fact that you are so bothered by an extra space after the period to be bizarre.
How is that worse than people who use run on sentences and no punctuation?
Who said it was worse?
If you fucking illiterate children are going to murder language with "u" and "ur", I'll put two spaces after the period, which is the right goddamn way to format anyway.
The double spaces is a holdout from the age of typewriters, where spaces were all the same size. Modern fonts (non-monospaced anyway) already have different spacing between words compared to the spacing after a period.
If βurβ and βuβ donβt belong in normal communication, neither does two spaces after a period.
The "two spaces" habit is because that was proper typing etiquette back in the day. You would lose points on on submitted papers if you didn't do that. I still do th two spaces when typing on a computer but use a single space on my phone.
Whatβs funny is I finish my sentences with two spaces on my phone because that is the shortcut for a period and a space.
Two spaces is very ingrained. Will probably never stop. Didn't even know the recommendation had changed until very recently. Why?
I am under 40, but had "two spaces after a period," drilled into me as a kid. I only broke the habit in the last year, and it still feels weird every time I use just one.
Were you ever given a reason for being taught to use two spaces?
Were you ever given a reason for not?
Usually you aren't given a reason for not doing something, unless it's dangerous to do the thing. π But if you're instructed to do more work, it can be reasonable to assume someone once thought there might be a reason to do the extra things.
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Two spaces on a modern phone automatically gives you a full stop. Checkmate, atheists
What is a two space habit? I've never seen this in my life. I'm in my late thirties. Is this that's done only in America again?
Back in the days of monospaced fonts, it was common practice to put two spaces after the period ending a sentence to make text more readable. It's not an issue now that fonts are dynamically spaced, making words appear more "natural" and sentences thus easier to parse, but when every character had the exact same width it was hard to determine the "flow" of a sentence since it wasn't easy to see where it ended. I remember being taught in kindergarten/first grade to use two spaces after a period, even though we weren't using monospaced fonts then (to the best of my recollection). That's why this is an "over 40" thing - it was taught to older generations to accommodate the technology at the time, but nobody ever went back to "unprogram" this from their minds.
Because it makes it easier to read so bite me.
You're entitled to your opinion. Congratulations.