I have never gotten out of the habit of two spaces after a period, either, and it was only within the past few years that I ever heard there was debate. In high school, some teachers would take off points for assignments turned in with only one space after each period.
Mmm. Wife soup. I must've done good.
Wash ,'War Stories'
Delurking 1: Because we don't always check our e-mail.
Hil R. - Oct 04, 2009 1:47:55 pm PDT #370 of 3094
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Amy - Oct 04, 2009 1:50:38 pm PDT #371 of 3094
Because books.
Oooh, I hate that too, but I set a custom template for my Word docs, so I rarely have to deal with it.
Teach me!
Steph L. - Oct 04, 2009 1:50:52 pm PDT #372 of 3094
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
I now live in fear of posting more than a sentence here
Oh, don't! Seriously. For all the editors/writers here, I've never seen anyone lay a grammar smackdown on anyone else. The serial comma debate is just good-natured heckling between nerds.
And even the editors/writers here don't have flawless grammar when posting. God knows *I* don't.
davers - Oct 04, 2009 1:51:16 pm PDT #373 of 3094
Yeah, well....
Kevin, which Prime Minister and why didn't it stick?
Dana - Oct 04, 2009 1:51:49 pm PDT #374 of 3094
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
Typos are why we have the edit function. If they drive you nuts, you can fix them. If not, that's fine too.
-t - Oct 04, 2009 1:52:12 pm PDT #375 of 3094
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I used to automatically do the two hits to the spacebar, but my current keyboards feel so different from typewriters that the muscle memory has been overridden.
Barb - Oct 04, 2009 1:52:50 pm PDT #376 of 3094
“Not dead yet!”
Teach me!
As soon as I remember, I'll tell you!
Steph L. - Oct 04, 2009 1:54:26 pm PDT #377 of 3094
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
We have a massive, multi-page macro at work that covers all the really common things that authors do that violate our house style -- lots of minutiae (like no periods in academic degrees -- MD, PhD, etc.), but that's our thing. We just run it first before we ever start editing.
Amy - Oct 04, 2009 2:02:00 pm PDT #378 of 3094
Because books.
And even the editors/writers here don't have flawless grammar when posting. God knows *I* don't.
Oh, god, me either. And I use ellipses and em dashes far too much here and in casual use.
SailAweigh - Oct 04, 2009 2:06:12 pm PDT #379 of 3094
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
I remember being taught the two spaces after a period, when I took a typing class with a real typewriter, but as soon as I switched to computers with word processors I quit doing that. I'm not sure why, somebody must have told me because I rarely think to change my habits that way. What did surprise me recently was taking a typing test on a computer and the program specified I was to put in two spaces after a period! It made me wonder, since this was a test for a county job, if the county still had scads of typewriters in use in their offices.