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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.
Never heard of this nonsense in my life and I'm a office worker who's over 40. What God foresaken American sub-cultural trashpile did this come from that these idiot kids from adjacent refuse heaps could start assuming everyone over 40 does?
Good on you for managing to be offensive to both the Americans AND the non-Americans
It's a gift.
I was taught to do that in word processing class in 1995 ๐ญ I was only following orders!
Imagine publically outing yourself as an agist POS with impulse control issues and an inability to rank issues worth talking about in any kind of sane manner.
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It's a major pet peeve of mine to see two spaces after a period.
For those of you as stunned as I am that Word now marks two spaces as an error, there's how to fix it courtesy of Microsoft Answers
Although current convention is to use just one space when using proportional fonts (two spaces were used in typing because most typewriter fonts were monospaced), you can select which convention you want to use and have Word flag exceptions (or not). At File | Options | Proofing, beside "Grammar and Refinements," click Settings... In the Grammar Settings dialog, scroll down to Punctuation Conventions. You'll see that you can select one or two space or "don't check." As to why this just started, probably no one can tell you, but this is how to fix it.
Why not just increase the size of a single space? Having two spaces is just extra work for no reason.
Edit:
I decided to look up the original image and found this
https://www.cultofpedagogy.com/two-spaces-after-period/
The amount of animosity over this issue is hysterical. Please continue.
Sometimes autocorrect does that too
It's true, but indirectly.
Old people went to school and learned to write. I mean, they needed to use a pen and make letters and then - get this - were assessed and graded on it; and if they weren't doing this well enough, it's one of many reasons they as kids could have been - steel yourself - kept back from moving up to the next schooling year.
Really. The inability to 'write' could force someone to repeat actual learning again, and for a full year. Oh, the horror!
Similarly, we were taught how to make sentences and - it gets worse - write something creative, in this manual format, without errors, directly from something we called an imagination.
And the style guide of the time used two spaces. In addition to the requirements to make a sentence and a paragraph, properly, lest they be held back - not as a consequence of failure, if you've ever heard of the notion, but as part of a programme requiring success - also the style guide of the time was a little arbitrary. It's like how the one-space fixation is equally arbitrary but without the ability to make a full sentence without kidgin or memes.
Yeah. Telling. It's a tell. Watch me say 'please' or 'pardon me' and completely out myself as anachronistic. I often feel like this and other badges of honor like "being home alone and apparently not dying immediately" weigh me down a bit. I struggle. I'd demand a medal but all these medals are how I got this odd lean in my posture already.
OCD is a bitch, ain't it?