Nothing Says Over 40 Like Two Spaces after a Period!
https://www.cultofpedagogy.com/two-spaces-after-period/
you are not on a typewriter, you only need ONE FUCKING SPACE after a period
If you do even a little bit of research on this topic, you’ll find plenty of articles practically begging you to stop using two spaces. Slate‘s Farhad Manjoo went so far as to say that it is totally, completely, utterly, and inarguably wrong.
But these articles are not reaching everyone, probably because for many of us who learned to type before computers, it was hammered into our heads over and over and OVER again to use two spaces. We got our papers marked wrong if we didn’t. It takes a long time to unlearn that. And until you unlearn it, you’ll probably force this funky old rule on your own students. I know I did: I remember sitting in a computer lab in 1998, going through my students’ papers, marking all the places where they needed to add an extra space after the period. It wasn’t until 1999, when I got a copyediting job with the New England Journal of Medicine, that I learned the “new” rule.
When you know better, you do better. I love you, fellow middle-aged folks, but it’s time we all join the modern age and spend just a little less time leaning on the space bar.
this place really is full of boomers isn't it?
good thing you put so many spaces after your period or i wouldn't have been able to read that very well
>Everybody is waking up.
i wish more people would wake up to the fact they only need one space after a period