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I recently came across a tweet that read: dear friends older than 37, you don't have to put two spaces after the period anymore. That was the typewriter era, your free.

I'm not going to say exactly what age I am but I'm not older than 37 and I didn't learn to type on a typewriter, I learned on a computer. I was taught it's two spaces after a period and never thought anyone had any different teaching or that someone would think two spaces was just too much to bother with.

Since this is a new idea to me, that I will reject because I see no reason to change my ways and I feel it's the right way but personal bias aside, what do you guys all do when you type? Do you use one or two spaces after a period and what were you taught?

I recently came across a tweet that read: dear friends older than 37, you don't have to put two spaces after the period anymore. That was the typewriter era, your free. I'm not going to say exactly what age I am but I'm not older than 37 and I didn't learn to type on a typewriter, I learned on a computer. I was taught it's two spaces after a period and never thought anyone had any different teaching or that someone would think two spaces was just too much to bother with. Since this is a new idea to me, that I will reject because I see no reason to change my ways and I feel it's the right way but personal bias aside, what do you guys all do when you type? Do you use one or two spaces after a period and what were you taught?

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[–] • 4 pts

I'm a 2 spacer. I feel it looks better and breaks up the sentences so scanning becomes easier.

Also, doesn't 2 spaces when texting trigger an auto period and shift for the next sentence, or did that change?

[–] • 1 pt

Smartphones still have setting for auto periods before a double space

[–] • 4 pts

Use two spaces, it makes your papers longer when you are struggling to reach that page minimum. Lol

[–] • 1 pt

yehh my prof ripped my paper when i did that

not really but he found out some how

oh i used 3 spaces i think

lol

[–] • 3 pts

I always use one space after a period. That's what I was taught.

[–] • 2 pts

One now, but I remember being taught two at one point.

[–] • 0 pt

so you just got lazy or did not see the point in two spaces?

[–] • 1 pt

Changes when I learned desktop publishing for print

[–] • 2 pts

I use two spaces because I'm not a fucking animal.

Seriously though, I've never heard of such a thing and I'm younger than 37 and have never even touched a typewriter, let alone use one.

[–] • 1 pt

I think the two spaces is old school and no longer practiced by many. I'm much older than 37, but never used two spaces. But it really doesn't matter. One, or two spaces, to me it's the content that counts, not the formatting.

[–] • 1 pt

that is true the content is what matters most.

[–] • 1 pt

I did learn how to type on a typewriter, but also learned on a computer at the same time.

Two spaces was the rule then.

I use only one space.

[–] • 0 pt

why did you stop using two spaces? This whole idea of using only one space baffles me and bothers me why more than it should.

[–] • 1 pt

I use two spaces after a period and a single one after a colon or semicolon. I think two spaces looks better and is easier to read, but it's a personal preference. Use however many spaces you want and don't let the man tell you how to punctuate!

[+] [deleted] • 1 pt
[–] [deleted] • 0 pt

I remember using two spaces when first using computers because I used a typewriter extensively before computers were the norm. I continued that practice for many years on the computer keyboard. Then, one day, someone suggested that I only need one. It was revolutionary to me. Took me a long time to adapt. I felt like you did in the beginning. Like I was committing some kind of grave wrong by not having two spaces. Eventually, through practice and determination, it became natural. I say embrace it.

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