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I still find people who do this (slrpnk.net)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/justpost@lemmy.world
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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.

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[–] 90 points 2 years ago* (21 children)

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.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (13 children)

    Yeah, I think this is more of an "over 50" thing. Someone who's 40 today would have been born in 1984. That would have had them graduating high school in ~2002 - well into the computer age and not ever having to do anything on a typewriter.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    I’m 35 and I learned two spaces in school growing up :shrug:

    Then later I learned it had changed so I stopped doing it. :double shrug:

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Yea 39 checking in, that’s the way I was taught to type in school as well. I never broke the habit and still do double spaces after a full stop.

    I’d honestly be more surprised that someone could tell enough to be bothered.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I can't not notice it. It jumps out at me, the exact same as when someone does a non-three-dot ellipse.

    I feel like the Monty Python priest with the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch

    "Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out."

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    The non three dot ellipse gets worse on some devices that replace the "..." (three individual dots) with '…' (one symbol with three dots that have slightly different spacing to the three individual dots). "...." looks wrong but it’s worlds better than "….".

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    Yeah, I think this is more of an β€œover 50” thing.

    Someone born in 1976 is either 48 or 49 right now, which is well inside the "two spaces" era. So you've go a couple more years to clear these folks out before its an "over 50 thing".

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    Oddly enough, I've found that many of my younger coworkers can't touch type. It makes sense that they won't use two spaces if they never learned that muscle memory. It seems unlikely that someone who's using the hunt and peck method would have that habit ingrained.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Some messaging services will crush whitespace, which can make it really fucking fun to communicate things like guitar tablature or Python code snippets. Either way you might type double spaces but it only saves singles. I typed this message with double spaces but Lemmy displays it single spaced.

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