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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 had a guy review a document I wrote go through and "correct" all of my spaces by adding another one.
We can also clearly tell that no one at your work cares and they probably think you're an annoying little shit.
Such a zoomer meme.
Very interesting. I hadn't noticed that before. Something to consider. I'll keep an eye out for that. /s
I live in the middle. I couldn't care less about either way.
After your first sentence here, I initially thought you were going to say "I leave one and a half spaces after a period." And I immediately started wondering "howwww???"
The more acronym/initialism oriented English gets, the more that double space makes sense.
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.
I'm under 30 and I do this when not on my janky phone keyboard. It just feels right lol
While I'm definitely in the "single space" camp myself, and have previously been pretty annoyed by people who still use two spaces, I actually like how often I see the double spaces on Lemmy because it reminds me that there are quite a few people over 25 on here. I'm not quite 40, and I don't think I was ever taught anything other than single space, but I have friends that still do two spaces.
Yeah, I’m old. When I was in high school, I was required to take a typing class before I could take a computer class. A computer class on the Apple ][e. (I said I was old!) On a typewriter, it was correct to add 2 spaces after a period, and that’s how I learned. I did it on the computer for a long time, but I eventually broke the habit. It wasn’t easy to break that muscle memory though!
Not 40, but I still do it. When learning to type on a computer in school it was a requirement. I don’t mind though because now when I do it, periods are automatically added for me in place of the first space.
I always thought that it is because, after a period, in theory, you would take a slightly longer pause when speaking. Like the break between the last sentence and this sentence in your head.
You're entitled to your opinion. Congratulations.
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.
Two spaces is very ingrained. Will probably never stop. Didn't even know the recommendation had changed until very recently. Why?
It's about the typeface. Back in the day of manual or electric typewriters, we had monospace fonts, meaning that every character had the same width. A lowercase "i" got the same horizontal width as an uppercase "M".
Now we have word processors and proportional fonts, and the spacing after a period is built into the typeface.
One space after a period is correct, unless you are using Courier (or similar).
Two spaces on a modern phone automatically gives you a full stop. Checkmate, atheists
I was taught to do it this way in computer class 25 years ago. But I quit the habit sometime in the mid 2010s.
I had the good fortune of attending a university that used the APA style guide, which gave me the opportunity to break free from the horrible MLA format that I learned in high school. So, no double space after a period for me, despite my advanced age.
Note: I understand that this is a typewriter thing, but while I had occasion to use a typewriter as a kid and teen, they were mostly no longer relevant already and I was never really taught anything directly related to typewriter typing. It is ridiculous that MLA stuck with that rule for so long (I don't know if they have dropped it since).
My god, think of all those wasted bytes just storing extra spaces. /s
I love that none of the commenters on this post extolling double-spacing actually have visible double-spacing in their comments.
There's a user at work who puts quadruple ellipses after each sentence he types. It's just like he holds down . for a few seconds. I hate it.
Just use Find/Replace.
Find (double space) Replace with (single space)