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.
For those of you as stunned as I am that Word now marks two spaces as an error, there’s how to fix it courtesy of Microsoft Answers
Although current convention is to use just one space when using proportional fonts (two spaces were used in typing because most typewriter fonts were monospaced), you can select which convention you want to use and have Word flag exceptions (or not). At File | Options | Proofing, beside “Grammar and Refinements,” click Settings… In the Grammar Settings dialog, scroll down to Punctuation Conventions. You’ll see that you can select one or two space or “don’t check.” As to why this just started, probably no one can tell you, but this is how to fix it.
I’m over 40. I do what I want.
30s, and that’s how I was taught to type, so…
29, and yeah: 12pt Times New Roman, double spaced lines max, and two spaces after the period always…
I use two spaces and you are all “no cap fr fr skibidi Ohio fam.”
Fuck off.
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.
If this is bugging you you deserve to be annoyed._ You’re looking for reasons to be miserable._. You’re doing it to yourself. _ You give your power away to easily.
I think your rite. OP shouldn’t of let themself get so bothered.
Such a zoomer meme.
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.
Were you ever given a reason for being taught to use two spaces?
Very interesting. I hadn’t noticed that before. Something to consider. I’ll keep an eye out for that. /s
You missed a space after your final period
Why would anyone do that, and why would anyone whine about an extra space anyway?
Sorry, but this is a lot of fuss over nothing. Coming from 40+
I grew up with this. Typing class (as in typewriters) forced this behavior on me and I was graded on it. It’s a tough habit to break when your formative keyboard habits are suddenly wrong. It’s not that easy to stop when you’ve been doing it that way for thirty years.
I had typing classes too, on type writers (45+ here) and never did double spaces. Why would you do that?
Because south carolina has always been behind on things. We had typewriters and the schools didn’t get actual computers for that purpose until 1995.
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I don’t get it. That’s why you put yeonspaces after a dot?
Ah, I see. For typewriters they taught us to use multiple spaces because it helps make sentence endings easier to read. Commas and periods are sometimes difficult to tell apart depending on the typewriter.
I don’t have too strong opinions about the people who write like this.
But there’s a special place in hell for those creating websites and apps that render those spaces instead of automatically truncating to one space like the fucking Html standard expects. They have to go out of their way to enable worse looking writing.
Not sure why the downvotes, I fully agree with you. Those html standards breaking sites should burn in hell, especially the ones that still do anchor clicks with JavaScript
I will not stop. And whining about it will make me double down.
4 spaces after a period?
Double it!
8 spaces?
16 TABS
Over 40. Never do this. The word processor has been doing it for me since WordPerfect 5
