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Two spaces. Like Syl, I learned to type on a manual typewriter. If we're supposed to be all modernised now, why don't we redesign the keyboard? Everybody knows the QWERTY layout was designed to slow typists down...

--A

i use whatever i type. punctuation, grammar are myths created by the man.

lurch is weird about it though.

I Just Discovered What The Shift Key Does...

Avatar wrote:Two spaces. Like Syl, I learned to type on a manual typewriter. If we're supposed to be all modernised now, why don't we redesign the keyboard? Everybody knows the QWERTY layout was designed to slow typists down...

--A

There are programs out there that will change your key assignments to other layouts...free ones, even. Heh...you could do it by yourself, if you knew what you wanted, but it would be tedious.

As a matter of fact, IIRC, Windows includes, somewhere, at least one of the Dvorak layouts.

sgt.null wrote:i use whatever i type. punctuation, grammar are myths created by the man.

lurch is weird about it though.

I Just Discovered What The Shift Key Does...

S p a c e i s f r e e t o g i v e , s o I g i v e i t f r e e l y .

Seareach wrote:well I'll be horn swaddled!

Oh yeah...that's "hornswoggled" Sea.

--A

Avatar wrote:

Seareach wrote:well I'll be horn swaddled!

Oh yeah...that's "hornswoggled" Sea.

--A

umm...yea...being swaddled in horns is a bit different...and possibly pokey in some sensitive areas.

There's always a cunning linguist in these threads.

I type with two spaces after a period sometimes, and one space after a period at other times. Whichever I chose, I use consistently throughout the document. I think both are equally aesthetically pleasing, and the arguments in that article against two spaces are a load of cr@p, imo. Especially about % being arbitrary--it's a logical derivation of a more complicated symbol.

Vain wrote:There's always a cunning linguist in these threads.

HEHEHE

I do one space after a full stop. I was taught two after every period in high school. Then when I went to college, my whole world was shattered when all of my professors taught us to write our papers using only one space after everything. So I did whatever it took to get me an A.

That and I type so much on the internet, and text, and e-mail....one space just makes it easier, I suppose.

I've never done it with two. Is it a better experience? It sounds kinda tricky to me...

I was taught to use two spaces. One after commas. I probably won't change since I'm so used to typing this way.

JazFusion wrote:Then when I went to college, my whole world was shattered when all of my professors taught us to write our papers using only one space after everything. So I did whatever it took to get me an A.

I must say that at university, they never prescribed to us how many spaces to use.

--A

lurch wrote:

sgt.null wrote:i use whatever i type. punctuation, grammar are myths created by the man.

lurch is weird about it though.

I Just Discovered What The Shift Key Does...

S p a c e i s f r e e t o g i v e , s o I g i v e i t f r e e l y .

grammar was married to grandpa and needed the double space that the twin bed gave them. though they were neither identical or fraternal.

JazFusion wrote:

Vain wrote:There's always a cunning linguist in these threads.

HEHEHE

Finally someone gets me !!

Vain wrote:I'm a 'two spaces after a fullstop' person. Like this. Apparently this is incorrect. What do you do?

It's what I was recommended to do during my university honours year. I haven't got out of the habit.

I've always used double spacing after a full stop during primary school, high school and university. As far as I'm concerned it's the only way to do it..
But maybe it's a locational thing. Like spelling.
But I do realise that the world changes.. What was an unquestionable truth 100 years ago may now be found to be false.

space bar is the final frontier?

Of course on this forum the question is moot, because phpBB automatically condenses multiple spaces down to a single space.

Murrin wrote:Of course on this forum the question is moot, because phpBB automatically condenses multiple spaces down to a single space.

Spoiler

spoilsport alert!

Y'know, Murrin, I'd noticed that, and it drives me crazy.

Just like how phpBB ignores extra spaces at the front of paragraphs -- so if you write poetry with any lines indented, you can't freaking get them to indent in the writer's forum. Not that that bothers me or anything.