"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
11/11/2015 at 14:30 • Filed to: kinja
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"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
11/11/2015 at 14:30 • Filed to: kinja | 1
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As somebody who regularly writes
!!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!!
, and as an inveterate old-school typist, I have noticed that, any time I double-space after a period, Kinja has begun to remove one of the spaces automatically. Thanks, Kinja?
this is not matt farah's foxbodymiata
> ttyymmnn
11/11/2015 at 14:32 |
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Saving you from the humiliation of being older than 13 and on the Internet?
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ttyymmnn
> this is not matt farah's foxbodymiata
11/11/2015 at 14:40 |
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I guess so. I know that modern typing styles have embraced the single space after a period, but I learned to type on an old IBM selectric back in the early ‘80s. Damn you kids and your new fangled ideas!
RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> ttyymmnn
11/11/2015 at 14:45 |
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I’ve mostly grown out of the double-space, but I, too, used to use it at the end of sentences for the same reason (except substitute “90s” for “80s”). Yes, we had a computer. No, it wasn’t what I learned typing on.
uofime-2
> ttyymmnn
11/11/2015 at 14:48 |
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I’ve never used a typewriter and still learned to double space!
I remember having a teacher in grade school who would take off points if you didn’t, but that was 15 years ago.
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ttyymmnn
> uofime-2
11/11/2015 at 14:49 |
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Let’s go have a beer. Bring your laptop, and we’ll type.
Jcarr
> ttyymmnn
11/11/2015 at 14:51 |
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I hear you. I grew up double-spacing, but single is the way to go now. I work on a variety of research publications at work and I still have trouble with muscle memory overpowering my brain.
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ttyymmnn
> Jcarr
11/11/2015 at 14:54 |
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I think it just looks better. I know we’re saving ones and zeroes, though. And I guess those can add up in a place like Gawker.
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uofime-2
> ttyymmnn
11/11/2015 at 15:06 |
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I did that regularly when I was in college, you’ve just got to make sure your work gets done in less than two hours or so...
Cé hé sin
> ttyymmnn
11/11/2015 at 15:20 |
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I’ve never heard of anyone double spacing after a full stop , but some people were taught to put a single space before a comma and it looks as odd as it does just above I guess the double space after follows.
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ttyymmnn
> Cé hé sin
11/11/2015 at 15:37 |
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Single space after a comma, double space after a period (full stop), single space after a semicolon, double space after a colon. All old-fashioned rules by today’s standards. I think it makes for easier reading.
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ttyymmnn
> uofime-2
11/11/2015 at 15:38 |
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Yeah, all those extra spaces really can add up.
wkiernan
> ttyymmnn
11/11/2015 at 15:50 |
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At work I have to use an email client that automatically capitalizes words at the beginning of new lines, so that if I don’t want a capital letter there I have to back-space and fix it. It also criticizes my spelling. It makes me furious. Now here I am watching this stupid thing editing my typing, like it knows what I want to type better than I do. Fuck that fucking shit you stupid heap of ones and zeroes, you God damn servo-mechanism, fuck that and fuck you!
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ttyymmnn
> wkiernan
11/11/2015 at 16:07 |
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Similar to the way Word thinks it knows better than you what you want to do. Auto-formatting can GTFAC.
davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com
> ttyymmnn
11/11/2015 at 21:00 |
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DOUBLE SPACE 4 LYFE!
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ttyymmnn
> davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com
11/11/2015 at 21:01 |
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AMEN, BROTHER!!1!