At my last job, a bunch of the older folks did not realize they had a “two spaces” habit.

It’s a clear tell.

Saw this meme and thought I’d point that out.

  • @ikidd
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    315 days ago

    If you fucking illiterate children are going to murder language with “u” and “ur”, I’ll put two spaces after the period, which is the right goddamn way to format anyway.

    • @[email protected]
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      145 days ago

      The double spaces is a holdout from the age of typewriters, where spaces were all the same size. Modern fonts (non-monospaced anyway) already have different spacing between words compared to the spacing after a period.

      If “ur” and “u” don’t belong in normal communication, neither does two spaces after a period.

    • @kerrypacker
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      115 days ago

      Yep it looks and reads better than a single space.

    • @irish_link
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      05 days ago

      You know, that actually doesn’t bother me as much as some other things. Your never going to guess what truly bothers me more than the short hand of u and ur. At least with the u and ur they have taken everything out of it.You’re example seems to… Okay I was going to do a you’re and make it possessive in this sentence but my aneurysm can only last so long.