think4yourself

girlwithalessonplan:

leftyjenkins:

nprfreshair:

“Two spaces is wrong.”

— Farhad Manjoo explains why putting two spaces after a period at the end of a sentence is wrongwrongwrong.

I hear what he’s saying - that the two spaces is a holdover from using typewriters. But here’s the thing - I think it looks…

I can’t not do it.  I learned to type on my own, and then took formal classes in ‘95.  No one has ever said a word to me about it until I starting writing for the newspaper.  The editor never told me he was silently removing the extra space.  It wasn’t until another copyeditor got hold of my word something was said, and I was mortified.  Now, if I do something for the paper I consciously take them out.

However, the official stance by the MLA is:  At your professor’s or publication’s discretion. I’ve never had a grad professor say anything to me about it.  

I’m on the other side of this argument …I can’t make myself type with two spaces…I haven’t used two spaces since middle school…