Single space or double space after periods? I've always been a double, but I am learning that method is archaic.

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Double. Screw that archaic talk. That's probably from the people who can't use the correct your/you're or their/there.

2 space guy here as well. Just found out it is okay for 1 space now.

I knew this would happen some day but I refuse to conform.

#OldSchool4Ever.

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#teamdoublespace

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I really hate to think about the pics that are about to be posted in this thread.

Single space. Like this?

Or is that called double space? Or is this double space?

I'm cold....

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Certain websites won't recognize the double space. I'm sure it has something to do with Pokemon Go.

It's double-spaced. Are you people stupid?

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I am entirely aware of the reasons people don't anymore, and it all boils down to laziness.

This very bored doesn't recognize the two spaces.

It's two spaces, you use a comma before the 'and' in a list, everyone else can kiss my ass and make it a love story, and you can print it.

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BOOM!

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MANY Spaces

I was taught double space after the dot, so I generally type and post that way (unless I am on my phone).

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If that is double spaced then I agree with you.

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Already a top notch pro-double space crowd.

#MakeAmericaDoubleSpaceAgain

Single space.

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also, can we finally eliminate uppercase completely.

Mods please delete.

hussracalypse

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Single spacing is for hillbillies and people who went to IU.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

now now Brick. I am double space all the way.

Millennials fucking shit up again.

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It has to do with monospaced vs. proportionally spaced fonts. When we used typewriters, every character was given the same amount of space on a page which meant the letter "i" was given the same amount of space as the letter "m." An extra space between sentences was needed to improve readability.

Computers use proportionally spaced fonts which adjust spacing to the size of the letter. A proportional font can fit 12 letters into the same space used by a monospace font with only nine. Even though many of us were taught to use two spaces after a period, it's no longer really necessary.

The Chicago Manual of Style and the AP Stylebook recommend one space after a period.

Do whatcha like...

Yeah, applications like Office adjust the space automatically after a period.

Unless, of course, you geezers are still using your IBM Selectrics.

Double space you savages.

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For those who are #allin on double word spaces, one thing we could do is to convince everyone else that those who use a single word space are racist. Or anti-something else.

We can make this happen.

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Tad Queasy hit the nail on the head, but I still use double just because I'm used to it. I also put a line through my 7s and am a big proponent of using the Oxford comma.

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Line through the 7's....that is old school. I like it. I might start putting a line through 9's just for the hell of it.

I also got in the habit of a line through Z working for a German company.

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double-space+ after full-stop majority rule.


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