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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.
Need I say more?
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Pfft 40, funnily enough SWBMO, who is of English heritage, is a proponent of the post period double space while I didn't hear of it till she started "correcting" my atrocious grammar.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
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I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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One space or two?
Isn’t there usually just a huge sigh of relief?
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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I am over 70
Always
1 space after a period
1 space after a comma
For lists
no comma before the "and" for a list.
old school.
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jmaida wrote: no comma before the "and" for a list.
I really love my dogs, software and pizza
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Jon McKee wrote: I really love my dogs, software and pizza
_Why_ would anyone name their dog software? ( naming a dog pizza however -- )
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They aren't 
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I don't think this has anything to do with age really but rather, how you learned to type.
My typing class in the 8th grade, was the last one to use a manual typewriter. double space was taught.
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One space only.
Nobody I know in India uses two spaces, regardless of age.
Cheers,
Vikram.
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This has about caused a fight in my house hold on a few occasions. I cannot not type a double space after a period. Herself who is in communications and public relations just about has a cow once every 6 months or so when she sees some memo or something I have typed that has been distributed inside my company. I am trying but I am way past 40 and to be frank I don't care that much.
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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I just set my MS-Word to enforce two spaces after the end of a sentence. Even with proportional fonts it makes reading easier.
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Marc Clifton wrote: I'm over 40, lol.
I'm 48, and I've been taught to use double-spaces. It's deeply ingrained into me at this point.
A 63-year old co-worker does NOT, and never misses an opportunity to point out my "mistake".
So, it can't be purely an age thing.
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While we don't technically follow a particular style guide (though I don't believe any style guide has two spaces after a period) for editing on CodeProject, I can't stop myself from removing the second space.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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I expect to buy from Newegg or TigerDirect. Any preferences there.
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