Better Grammer Through Violence
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Kevin
- This is funny
- Since when do we not put two spaces after a period? I was taught that through junior high and high school, in two different states no less.
Since when do we not put two spaces after a period? I was taught that through junior high and high school, in two different states no less.
I think the two-space rule was a typewriter thing. With the advent of word processing, people stopped doing that. I worked at a newspaper and then later as a freelance writer, every editor I worked with told me to put just one space after a period. One quite vociferously: “Do you KNOW what a hassle it is for me to delete all of those extra spaces?!!!”
Dude, “find/replace” is your friend.
Comment 12/14/2007
Re: #2, I learned that, too, and still do it to this day, to the annoyance of many. The general rule, as I understand it, is that you use two spaces after a sentence-ending punctuation when using a fixed-width font like Courier, or on a typewriter. For proportional fonts, as on modern computers/word processors, use one space.
Comment 12/14/2007