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Saving Space
I'm not sure which is worse: a two-thousand word essay bitching about two spaces after a period, or the fact that I read it end-to-end. I need to get out more. Oh, and spaces? I'm a self-taught typist, and naturally rebel against anything I perceive as redundant. In other words, I've always used a single space after a period because that's how I learned to type.
My 7th grade typing teacher taught us to use two spaces, presumably because we used manual typewriters and it made the monospace type more readable. Interesting that there are still teachers pushing the use of two spaces today. Why use two when one is perfectly fine?
Posted by: Ron_in_CO on January 23, 2012 08:06 PMYeah, monospace. Olivia's learning "keyboarding," she started (I kid you not) in kindergarten. She's not doing the two-space thing. Since she's my child, I doubt she ever will.
Posted by: Scott on January 23, 2012 09:04 PMwhy use spaces at all?the punctuation mark clearly defines the end of a sentence.capitalization is also a waste of time because the punctuation mark clearly defines the beginning of a sentence
also the end of a paragraph doesn't need a punctuation mark because the newline indicates the end of a sentence
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Posted by: Ron_in_CO on January 24, 2012 08:29 PMOh, no. No going back to thirty five hundred year-old writing practices for me! You'll get my space bar when you pry it out from under my cold, dead thumbs I tell ya!
Posted by: Scott on January 25, 2012 06:51 AM