10-15-2014, 01:12 PM
|
#81
|
Basement Chicken Choker
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: In a land without pants, or war, or want. But mostly we care about the pants.
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by chemgear
Wow, 4 pages! 
|
2 pages. Never mind the weirdo double-spacers, the people who don't adjust their forum settings to the maximum number of posts per page are enemies of progress, deviants, and the flotsam of society.
Who would want to click to the next page more often than they absolutely had to? What imp of the perverse whispers in thine ears?
__________________
Better educated sadness than oblivious joy.
|
|
|
The Following 10 Users Say Thank You to jammies For This Useful Post:
|
|
10-15-2014, 01:13 PM
|
#82
|
Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Clinching Party
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Igster
Folks...You put a single space between words in a sentence. Why would you only put a single space between sentences? Think about that for a second.
|
I. don't. put. periods. between. words. in. sentences., but. I. do. only. put. one. space. between. sentences..
Think about that for a second.
|
|
|
The Following User Says Thank You to RougeUnderoos For This Useful Post:
|
|
10-15-2014, 01:13 PM
|
#83
|
Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Calgary, AB
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Harry Lime
This is true! I just read my earlier comment, and was seriously irritated with myself. My beautiful spacing was gone, and I judged myself harshly in it's absence.
|
Don't worry, everyone else is harshly judging your improper use of an apostrophe in the possessive form of "its".
__________________
Turn up the good, turn down the suck!
|
|
|
The Following User Says Thank You to getbak For This Useful Post:
|
|
10-15-2014, 01:14 PM
|
#84
|
Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: H-Town, Texas
|
Both of my kids are in high school and they are taught to double space after a period. They are in a paperless school, so each student has a macbook pro and they do everything via laptop.
|
|
|
10-15-2014, 01:17 PM
|
#85
|
Lifetime Suspension
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
I. don't. put. periods. between. words. in. sentences., but. I. do. only. put. one. space. between. sentences..
Think about that for a second.
|
Regardless. It creates more of a break between sentences IMO and is easier to read. Was taught to use 2 and still do and will continue to do so.
|
|
|
10-15-2014, 01:18 PM
|
#86
|
Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Calgary, AB
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Igster
Folks...You put a single space between words in a sentence. Why would you only put a single space between sentences? Think about that for a second.
|
Periods indicate the end of a sentence. I don't need to provide any additional visual cues to the reader that the sentence is complete.
__________________
Turn up the good, turn down the suck!
|
|
|
10-15-2014, 01:19 PM
|
#87
|
Franchise Player
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by getbak
Don't worry, everyone else is harshly judging your improper use of an apostrophe in the possessive form of "its".
|
Point taken. I wrote quickly and without due care.
Note that following each of your posts, the words, 'Turn up the good, turn down the suck!', clearly require a second exclamation point to be correct. Also, your fly is down.
|
|
|
The Following User Says Thank You to Harry Lime For This Useful Post:
|
|
10-15-2014, 01:25 PM
|
#88
|
Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Clinching Party
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Igster
Regardless. It creates more of a break between sentences IMO and is easier to read. Was taught to use 2 and still do and will continue to do so.
|
I think you mean "irregardless".
Anyway, I actually don't care and probably wouldn't even notice. I don't notice, and obviously some people still double-space, so "probably" has nothing to do with it.
I was taught to double-space back in the day, but I gave it up when I (ironically?) was told by an older gent that it's not how it's done in the industry (the lying/advertising industry) we were working in then.
For me, the period does enough to break up sentences. Either way, I think it is cool that people actually care enough about this to discuss it, regardless of preference. The internet is making us dumb, and kind of ruining the way we communicate, u no?
|
|
|
10-15-2014, 01:26 PM
|
#89
|
Franchise Player
|
Ihaveanappointmentanddesperatelyneedtorun, butIwouldjustliketopointoutthatthisisthekindofchao sthatwillensueifwearetofollowdownthisdangerouspath .
Double space. For the children.
|
|
|
10-15-2014, 01:29 PM
|
#90
|
Franchise Player
|
A lot of hyperbole being thrown around. Do people honestly have trouble reading paragraphs with single spaces after periods? Because virtually any text you've ever read in a web browser is formatted that way automatically. I'd assume the same is true for most printed text in the last couple of decades as well.
On the other hand though, I don't even think I'd notice double spacing after a period in normal reading, so I can't fathom anyone being bothered by someone else doing it. Reading justified text must be a real nightmare for some people then, what with all those different sized spaces between words and letters.
And having done a double space when I was taught as a kid, the extra time or effort is completely negligible. You can double tap a space bar just as fast as a single tap. Switching to a single space years ago did nothing to speed up my typing.
|
|
|
10-15-2014, 02:09 PM
|
#91
|
Franchise Player
|
Single space and toilet paper hanging from the back of the roll.
|
|
|
10-15-2014, 02:16 PM
|
#92
|
Franchise Player
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Violating Copyrights
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by MoneyGuy
Single space and toilet paper hanging from the back of the roll.
|
Back of the roll. That's crazy. Everyone knows front with a hotel style pointy fold is correct.
|
|
|
10-15-2014, 02:16 PM
|
#93
|
Franchise Player
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by MoneyGuy
Single space and toilet paper hanging from the back of the roll.
|
1 out of 2 ain't bad. Not good, but it ain't bad.
|
|
|
10-15-2014, 02:28 PM
|
#95
|
In the Sin Bin
|
I was taught double space, and I find it preferable aesthetically. Most modern software auto-corrects for it, however. Notably, however, Twitter does not. About the only time I consciously avoid double spacing is when I hit the 140 character limit.
|
|
|
The Following User Says Thank You to Resolute 14 For This Useful Post:
|
|
10-15-2014, 02:29 PM
|
#96
|
First Line Centre
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Deep South
|
I remember being taught double spaces in All the Write Type. I used to enjoy the double spaces becuase I was a slower typer, and mashing that spacebar twice sped up my typing speed (at least it sure felt that way).
__________________
Much like a sports ticker, you may feel obligated to read this
|
|
|
10-15-2014, 02:32 PM
|
#97
|
In the Sin Bin
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by MoneyGuy
Single space and toilet paper hanging from the back of the roll.
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by kunkstyle
1 out of 2 ain't bad. Not good, but it ain't bad.
|
Most cat owners know that toilet paper hangs from the back of the roll.
Or else.
|
|
|
10-15-2014, 02:35 PM
|
#98
|
First Line Centre
|
Well I'll be damned, I just grabbed one of our flying manuals and all the text is double spaced between sentences. These manuals were written by BAE in proper English so I guess double space wins.
I'll never read a paragraph the same again.
|
|
|
10-15-2014, 02:41 PM
|
#99
|
Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Somewhere down the crazy river.
|
My formal education ended in 2001. Up to that point, I had heard nothing about this single-space replacing the double-space after a period.
That said, I was so focused in my studies that it wasn't until just after I graduated from university that I became aware that Nunavut had formed as a territory, so its possible that something happened in the world of typesetting that I missed.
|
|
|
10-15-2014, 02:44 PM
|
#100
|
Franchise Player
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Chill Cosby
My wife uses double spaced for work, but she's of the ability not to double space after a sentence if she's texting me.
|
I double space after my sentences. I'm also very happy that when I text I just double space after I'm done a sentence and it creates a period for me! Perfect!
|
|
|
The Following User Says Thank You to V For This Useful Post:
|
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
All times are GMT -6. The time now is 03:08 AM.
|
|