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I still find people who do this (slrpnk.net)

submitted 10 months ago by ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net to c/justpost@lemmy.world

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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.

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[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 32 points 10 months ago (4 children)

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.

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 10 months ago (4 children)

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.

[–] desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Monospaced font is great though.

[–] faintwhenfree@lemmus.org 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I agree however I don't know how to do that in lemmy.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Lemmy uses markdown, so:

https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/basics

[–] faintwhenfree@lemmus.org 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Testing a few things

｀is this monospace? ｀

Or ｀is this monospace? ｀

Or is this monodpace?

Or is this monospace

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I don't object to you using this thread as a preview, but you might get better (or at least faster) results at something like:

https://markdownlivepreview.com/

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 10 months ago

test

[–] faintwhenfree@lemmus.org 1 points 10 months ago

Thanks very helpful

[–] Lightor@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Putting two spaces after a period and using "u" and "ur" are not even on the same level. You can't say one is the same as the other, using a letter to replace a word is next level. A double space can almost be missed honestly.

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago

Imagine being so deprived as to grow upwithour a typewriter.

[–] kerrypacker@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

Yep it looks and reads better than a single space.

[–] irish_link@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months 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.