Do you…

[charlotte]

Put two spaces after the end of a sentence when you type?

That’s how I was taught to type. Apparently the other people on my team at work have never even heard of doing this.

Now I need to know how you type.

[rugger]

I used to because that's how I was taught. Now, i don't think about it because all the applications are programmed to automatically put in whatever the correct amount of space is.

[pbandj714]

Hell no.

[pbandj714]

I have strong feels about 2 spaces and the Oxford comma.

[charlotte]

Jul 29, 2021 11:51:04 GMT -6 pbandj714 said:

I have strong feels about 2 spaces and the Oxford comma.

Please don’t tell me you hate the Oxford comma 😱😱

[pbandj714]

Jul 29, 2021 11:56:17 GMT -6 charlotte said:

Jul 29, 2021 11:51:04 GMT -6 pbandj714 said:

I have strong feels about 2 spaces and the Oxford comma.

Please don’t tell me you hate the Oxford comma 😱😱

Oh no, it is a MUST.

One space and Oxford comma 4lyfe

[sarenu]

(There should be 2 spaces after a period!)

[charlotte]

Jul 29, 2021 12:51:45 GMT -6 sarenu said:

(There should be 2 spaces after a period!)

I knew that not everyone uses two spaces, but I couldn’t believe they’d never even HEARD of such a thing! They were looking at me like I was insane.

[tj]

Jul 29, 2021 13:01:45 GMT -6 charlotte said:

Jul 29, 2021 12:51:45 GMT -6 sarenu said:

(There should be 2 spaces after a period!)

I knew that not everyone uses two spaces, but I couldn’t believe they’d never even HEARD of such a thing! They were looking at me like I was insane.

Were they children?

I was also taught to do 2 spaces. But when I hit the professional world and also mh was in school again, I heard from both sources that you don’t do that anymore. So I don’t do that anymore.

[mintyblueair]

I was taught you do two spaces as a kid but I stopped when I was in university because it wasn't the done thing anymore.

I will never understand how a person could be against the Oxford comma.

[mc13]

Jul 29, 2021 11:58:20 GMT -6 pbandj714 said:

Jul 29, 2021 11:56:17 GMT -6 charlotte said:

Please don’t tell me you hate the Oxford comma 😱😱

Oh no, it is a MUST.

One space and Oxford comma 4lyfe

Same! It's definitely 1 space! 

[charlotte]

Jul 29, 2021 13:21:16 GMT -6 mintyblueair said:

I was taught you do two spaces as a kid but I stopped when I was in university because it wasn't the done thing anymore.

I will never understand how a person could be against the Oxford comma.

I actively judge people who don’t use the Oxford comma 😊.

I guess my two-space days are over.

[Speedy]

I vaguely remember being taught 2 spaces, but nope, single spacer here. If it's wrong then I guess my readers will hate me because that's how I did my entire book lol

[mapleme]

I remember my sister being taught to type two spaces, but I never was. It was a holdover from typewriter days and is no longer done. Typewriters use monospace fonts which make it difficult to tell where the end of each sentence is (monospace fonts allocate the same space to every letter - whether it is an i or an O). Modern fonts are proportional and allocate an amount of space proportional to the size of the letter, so it's much easier to quickly tell where sentences begin and end and the double space is no longer needed.

[rhymeswithdisco]

I always do two spaces. Especially when on my phone because it makes a period. If two spaces is wrong for a period, I don’t wanna be right.

[nikkipal]

I was going to say the same thing as rhymeswithdisco about typing on your phone. Do other people just hit the period button every time? Looking at it though, I don’t think the phone makes two spaces, it just turns the first space into a period.

[mapleme]

Two spaces just tells AC to give you a period plus one space.

[charlotte]

Jul 29, 2021 17:09:21 GMT -6 nikkipal said:

I was going to say the same thing as rhymeswithdisco about typing on your phone. Do other people just hit the period button every time? Looking at it though, I don’t think the phone makes two spaces, it just turns the first space into a period.

I was aware of this, but for some reason I always manually type a period followed by one space when I’m on my phone.

[sarenu]

Now I’m looking at my training presentation.

My only thought is it looks cleaner with two spaces. And makes me slow down.

[pbandj714]

Yep, nikkipal, I hit the period every time on my phone.

[tj]

I’m shocked by you period typers. Who has the time??

[milano]

I had no idea there was an alternative to hitting the period on my phone. Now I'm testing it out though. And huh.