It's a guideline used by professionals. Get with the program.
Btw, the answer is still 2. Go suck it.
this thread can fucking die already.
It must hurt to admire that you've been incorrectly doing too much work all this time thinking that it was more proper and you can't stand being reminded.
The pain is negligible to what it must be, to be you. I'd imagine I'd probably just off myself. But I'd also imagine a strong need to make a really annoying post on ATOT before doing so.
Unlike most people, I embrace and enjoy having my assumptions challenged and corrected.
Maximus Spacicus.It's 2 you fucking heathens.
The Maximus has spoken.
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I use the final comma in lists because it is clearer. The appeal to authority is unnecessary.
Necro backfire.
You'd think that the fact that most modern software converts double spaces to single spaces would be all the evidence one needs to reach the proper conclusion that single space is correct, but then again, Trump is wildly popular so the ignorance of the general population seems to know no bounds.
You'd think that the fact that most modern software converts double spaces to single spaces would be all the evidence one needs to reach the proper conclusion that single space is correct, but then again, Trump is wildly popular so the ignorance of the general population seems to know no bounds.
If Word started doing that all the crybaby hipsters would go apeshit.Most modern software? I use Word which I assume most people also use, and I've never seen it convert anything to single space.
If you're referring to mobile platforms, I hardly think a system that gave us texting speak (kthxbai) is the best evidence of sentence structure.
Well in the legal system the people actually making the decisions are old as fuck and apparently need 2 spaces to delineate the break between a period and the beginning of a new sentence.Style guides are just that... "guides." They are not rules that are universally applicable. I learned a long time ago that you write for your audience. In my case, that is judges and, prior to a year or so ago, other attorneys/partners at the law firms I worked at (I opened my own firm in 2014). If you ask the one space/two space question to attorneys, I would wager that at least 2/3 if not 3/4 would say two spaces - not because it is right or wrong but because that is what is expected in the legal context.
I am talking about the Supreme Court of the United States, the various federal courts of appeals that I have been before, the federal district courts, and all of the state courts. They all write with two spaces as did the lawyers I used to work for. Does that make two spaces correct? Hell if I know, but if a judge or senior partner wants two spaces, that's what they get.
And yes, when people write for me, I expect two spaces as well. If someone wants to argue with me that one space is correct, they can find another job.
If Word started doing that all the crybaby hipsters would go apeshit.
Why can't it be both?Wait... are we old farts/relics or are we hipsters? ...
If Word started doing that all the crybaby hipsters would go apes**t.
Why can't it be both?
As far as typing when the text will be displayed in HTML, none, really. I just see no point in breaking myself of the ingrained habit of automatically hitting the space bar twice after typing a period at the end of s sentence. I do purposely use 2 spaces in ordinary Word documents because it it still looks better to me when I'm using a "normal" typewriter-ish font and left-justified text. (And I'd fire a proofreader who changed it, or any other obviously intentional formatting I normally use without asking me first!)So whats the point in putting a double space in if it never shows up?