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David ([personal profile] gdgrana) wrote2009-01-29 01:17 pm
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Mind = blown

How many of you knew that having two spaces after a full stop is technically incorrect?

I didn't, and shame on you for never correcting me. Even never having read my sentences is a poor excuse.

(My God, this is going to be a hard habit to break D:)
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[identity profile] tiffuchan.livejournal.com 2009-01-29 06:33 pm (UTC)(link)
o.O wait, what? I'm confused.
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[personal profile] ursamajor 2009-01-29 06:37 pm (UTC)(link)
It only became true once people switched over to computers, and typographers designed fonts that didn't require a two-space ... well, space (especially once we got away from using monospaced fonts), *and* that web browsers strip double spaces at least since HTML 2.0 (~1996 or so? they've been doing that since I got on the net.). It's a moderately recent development; my typing class in 1992 was taught on computers, and double-spacing between the end of a sentence and the start of a new one was still standard then.

[identity profile] mbouloukoue.livejournal.com 2009-01-29 06:55 pm (UTC)(link)
It helps that official MLA style didn't change over to the single-space method until very recently, and even then, it allows for both. I tried to break the habit, but I gave up.
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