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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 49 points 2 months 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.

[-] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 2 months 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.

[-] desktop_user 10 points 2 months ago

Monospaced font is great though.

[-] faintwhenfree@lemmus.org 3 points 2 months ago

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

[-] toynbee@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago
[-] faintwhenfree@lemmus.org 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Testing a few things

`is this monospace? `

Or `is this monospace? `

Or is this monodpace?

Or is this monospace

[-] toynbee@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

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 2 points 2 months ago
[-] faintwhenfree@lemmus.org 1 points 2 months ago

Thanks very helpful

[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago
[-] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 2 months ago

You’re literally the one that brought it up.

[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

Well... yah, fair enough.

[-] Kichae@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago

Imagine being so deprived as to grow upwithour a typewriter.

[-] Lightor@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 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.

[-] kerrypacker@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

Yep it looks and reads better than a single space.

[-] WrenFeathers@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)
[-] irish_link@lemmy.world 2 points 2 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.

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