Do you use two spaces after a period?

[Anonymous]

Then you're wrong. WRONG, I tell you.

But don't take my word for it. Heck, you never have before. This article is definitive, with its expert interviews and history and research and whatall.

http://www.slate.com/id/2281146

You may reply with confession, contrition, and solemn vows to mend your sinful ways.

Go in peace.

[Anonymous]

Hi, I'm Anonymous and I'm a double spacer. I did so wantonly and in ignorance but now I know better.

Thank you for making me a more productive member of society...

[Anonymous]

I do, because of how I learned to type. But for years I havebeen using the find and replace feature to change my two spaces to one. My other pet peeve, using Times New Roman font. It is too small for everyday documents. It was designed for the London Times newspaper back when printing was very expensive. Please, everyone, change over and use the Century font.

[Anonymous]

I worked for roughly a decade for an editor who required 2 spaces. I knew better, but followed her standards. She's still out there, and will keep filling the world with copy for the next 20 years.

[Anonymous]

Pp here, it was The Times, not The London Times.

[Anonymous]

Anal but interesting. I have noticed that people who typed before the 80s (usu older women who were secretaries or people in their 50s) or learned to type in the 80s (people now in their 40s) used two spaces. While those who learned to type after the 80s (often older men who used to have secretaries or people now in their 20s-30s or younger) used one space.

[Anonymous]

19:42 again, I'm typing on an iPad so sorry for the spacing errors. In addition to using the Century family of fonts, I'd also like to see people turning on the kerning function in Word.

[Anonymous]

Arch! First no thank yous in thank you notes, now this?
::shakes fist at DCUM::

[Anonymous]

High school teachers, and most of my college professors all required double spacing. I am a 26 year old who didn't learn anything about typing until well into the 90's.

[Anonymous]

http://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2011/01/you-can-have-my-double-space-when-you-pry-it-from-my-cold-dead-hands/69592/

[Anonymous]

I'm 43, took a typing class in 1985, and use two spaces. I'm not going to change, and I write for a living.

[Anonymous]

I'm a two spacer and will remain one until the day I die (quite possibly at the hands of an angry single-spacing mob).

Oh, and I also tend to judge single spacers as lazy, and disadvantaged by what were clearly poor space-deprived upbringings.

On a related note: seeing left justified text just about makes my eyes bleed. For the love of God, full justify!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:http://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2011/01/you-can-have-my-double-space-when-you-pry-it-from-my-cold-dead-hands/69592/

. . .from my cold dead hands, indeed.

[SAM2]

I like seeing the extra space between sentences. It allows me to skim more quickly because I can compartmentalize each item. If we could require each sentence to have its own bulletpoint, I'd be ecstatic.

[Anonymous]

The rule changed. Those of us who had to learn grammar under the tyranny of the nuns should not be required to re-learn it. We have been through enough.