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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Typing (on a typewriter) represents a (many-decades long) regression in the field of setting type. The convention of two spaces emerged because the first typewriters had only monospace fonts (and therefore no variable-width spacing). Once word processing on computers with variable-width fonts (and variable-width spaces) emerged, there was no longer a need for double spaces. In fact, double spaces can interfere with layout algorithms working as designed.

What lawyers do should hardly be a standard. (Same goes for screenplay writers.)

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Who cares where it came from.  The bottom line is, plenty of us find two spaces after periods easier to read because they create a more distinct break between sentences, making the text sound more "natural" as we read it and easier to understand.  That is one reason why it persists in legal writing, and why many of us were taught it long after typewriters became obsolete.

The point is, it is appalling that an AO would assume that an essay with two spaces after periods had undue adult involvement in writing the essay.  It is far more likely that an adult proofreader saw it and, coming from a workplace or background where two spaces are normal (or required), advised the kid to do a universal find-and-replace to change one space after periods to two.  The AO in the article said they consider a section with two spaces after periods to be "blatantly faked."  That is an outrageous assumption.[/quote]

Concur.  And it speaks to the uselessness of the essay for high-stakes admissions, when that’s the only “tell” an AO is using for whether or not a student wrote an essay themselves.  [/quote]

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