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.
I’m sorry I’m over 40 and was never taught to do that crap.
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You better be fucking sorry, you're 39 going forward soldier!
39 and under the hill. They call me not gray beard…
I stopped doing this before I turned 40. :P
I never did that, even on a typewriter. Word processors do a decent enough job of spacing and it’d just look weird online.
I'm still a couple of years under 40. I only did this when I needed to extend the page count of a paper. However, my old man punctuation thing is that when I use commas before and after I, "quote," something on a sentence. Also, I don't care what Microsoft Word defaults are now, I write in Times New Roman.
Our typing software had it that way in 2000, so if you wanted to pass, you would have had to type 2 spaces after a period. Originally I think it is was about fonts not being so easy to seperate text apart so it would be easier to notice a thought being started/ended when skimming
I stopped that a long time ago and don't care who continues doing so. However I know that I'm dealing with a person who may be starting to sundown when I get emails written like that.
Also a lot of people who put a space before punctuation, as in "really ?", which I've been told may be a tell that the writer is french or studied french.
(A lack of capitalization for country/demonym-ish nouns and adjectives may be a tell that the writer is norwegian—we just capitalize the proper country name, the rest comes off as random capitalization we'll often get wrong, with or without autocorrect.)
I get annoyed by trailing spaces for no reason.Trailing paragraphs before a page break are cursed, though.
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Over 40. Never do this. The word processor has been doing it for me since WordPerfect 5