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I'm old enough to need a telescope to see 40, but I have never used double space after a period on a computer. As best I can recall, that was for typewriters only, mimicking the style used by traditional lead type printing.
Of which I did a fair amount at school, after they found out my mother was a printer (offset litho for her, hand set lead type for me).
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I think you got your N-Quads and M-Quads mixed up. I won't get into ligatures (KSS and all that).
QWERTY is as QWERTY does.
This isn't just big-endians and little-endians - this is serious!
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40 is definitely a distant dream, but we were never taught about double spacing after periods. Maybe a US thing... But I'll put a double space here just for you Marc 
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And ... the browser will automatically remove it, as it does with all multiple whitespace ... it's part of the HTML specification ... 
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It's space space the space space thought space space that space space counts.
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This is for those who love history!
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My dad does it too.
I never even knew this was a thing until recently[^].
To me, double spaces is just wrong, grammatically incorrect.
And age no be excuse to are grammatically not correct 
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Remember that grammar correctness changes over time: when I was at school "Joe and I" was the only acceptable form - now it's incorrect, and "Joe and me" or "me and Joe" are grammatically correct (and flagged as such by Word!)
Back in Ye Olde Days, paragraphs and all nouns were initially majuscule, now it's sentence starters and Proper Nouns only. (Mind you, that wasn't a "Y" back then either!)
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And as an old fart, you know all of this, proving my point 
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I know many, many things.
Most of them are completely useless, but that's not age, just the effects of education and an enquiring mind for you ... 
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But age helps, hoarding knowledge takes time.
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If only we could find where we put it.
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I'm more of the type, "Why did I enter the kitchen?"
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Just because Word doesn't complain, doesn't make it right. I cringe (inwardly when I remember, sometimes it's obvious) when people say "Fred and me did..." etc. I was always taught (both at home and at school) that if you were unsure whether to use "me" or "I" then just take out other person (no, not hire a hit-man) and if it sounds wrong, then it is.
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That is how I learnt it as well. You and I agree.
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Two spaces is also what I learned in typing class. It's a hard habit to break, but I'm slowly getting there. When it matters, I try to remember to search for ". " before submitting. (Had to insert non-breaking spaces there!)
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Marc Clifton wrote: yup, I'm over 40
Ditto...way over!
And yes I still put 2 spaces after...
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I do the double space all the time. I hate it when the ankle biters remind me that double-space is so old school.
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55 and I never really used a typewriter, so it was never a habit for me.
The one typing class I took (in high school) was a vain effort to help with my typing on the computer, so there's that.
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Taught two spaces in junior high typing class. Many years later I typeset my own book and overcame the two spaces rule. The joy of proportional fonts!
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Double space is how I was taught to type in school. I purposefully taught myself to use only one space since then though. In my opinion it looks better with computer text since we don't have the same issues that typewriters had.
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I was taught to type in 8th grade (roughly 12-13 year olds). With real genuine typewriters.
TWO SPACES AFTER A PERIOD . . . . period!
This dropping down to one? Just another concession to texting where it's now too difficult to spell out real words, let alone use proper punctuation or spacing. Or has the world gone HTML even in real life?
&npsb;
Are submissions to be handled as articles sharing intellectual capital or tweets?
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I use two spaces. But I do them in a really small font so it only looks like one. Keeps everyone happy!
[Note - I actually NEVER (intentionally) do the double-space thing. Literally, a waste of space and as so much ends up as HTML at some point completely, um, pointless.]
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DerekT-P wrote: so much ends up as HTML at some point completely, um, pointless
There's a widget I made - it randomly shows one of about 2700 "witty quotes". Before display, each quote is parsed and the spacing is fixed - which in particular includes that after a period there are a space and an & nbsp so that it looks presentable.
Your logic, for some reason eludes me: DerekT-P wrote: I use two spaces. But I do them in a really small font so it only looks like one.
So you do two only when it looks like on ? ? ? ? Freakin' weird. Or are you doing it, in reality, because you know it is more readable and so phrase your stated reason to bow to peer pressure?
Waste of space? This was even more important when one used paper and an inked ribbon. Inside a text file, especially with storage space as cheap as it is, it is even less of a waste as readability is (supposed to be) important.
Single Space? A manifestation of the shortening attention span. Dumbing down know's no limits.
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The statement about two spaces was a joke. (As clarified in my next line). I try and avoid bowing to peer pressure, so that definitely wouldn't be the reason. And as for readability, I don't find two spaces after a full stop more readable. Indeed, when I see it it interrupts my flow of reading, as I usually stop and ask myself "why the *&*$*#* did they put two spaces in there? I guess the time may come when my eyesight is too poor to spot a single full stop and the extra space will be a visual clue. I'm not there yet.
W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: Dumbing down know's no limits.
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