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[ArcspacE]

Technology has evolved and so have typewriters

Fonts have too and digital output has negated spacing errors.

 

[Spursalot]

One.


If it was two, they'd teach it at schools. Which they don't.

 

[Swifty]

I use 2 spaces after a full stop and I'm only 23. Google results are pretty evenly split in terms of opinion, but none of the sources are massively reliable.

And Spursalot, I was taught it at school.

 

[Spursalot]

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2011/01/space_invaders.html

Every modern typographer agrees on the one-space rule. It's one of the canonical rules of the profession, in the same way that waiters know that the salad fork goes to the left of the dinner fork and fashion designers know to put men's shirt buttons on the right and women's on the left. Every major style guide—including the Modern Language Association Style Manual and the Chicago Manual of Style—prescribes a single space after a period. (The Publications Manual of the American Psychological Association, used widely in the social sciences, allows for two spaces in draft manuscripts but recommends one space in published work.) Most ordinary people would know the one-space rule, too, if it weren't for a quirk of history. In the middle of the last century, a now-outmoded technology—the manual typewriter—invaded the American workplace. To accommodate that machine's shortcomings, everyone began to type wrong. And even though we no longer use typewriters, we all still type like we do. (Also see the persistence of the dreaded Caps Lock key.)




The books say one. So one it is.


Edit: No poll? :-k

 

[Superted]

I say it's wrong. That's 1-1.

 

[southstand1882]

:ross:

I don't think we'll be taking ENGLISH lessons from American sources thanks very much

 

[Park Lane James]

I have never been taught to use double spacing after a full-stop despite being educated at a private school for primary and a grammar school. I guess there are certain areas/workplaces where the double space is accepted or necessary, but I've never been called up on it so will continue to do so.

 

[southstand1882]

Oh, and anybody that went to school during the Labour government era.......we'll not be taking your advice either

Most of you are unemployable, and at least half of you are illiterate

 

[scaramanga]

One.


If it was two, they'd teach it at schools. Which they don't.

String Theory's pretty well established - I was never taught that at school.

 

[ArcspacE]

I think we need a poll

 

[southstand1882]

fudge the poll

 

[Eriktheviking]

fudge the poll

....ice

 

[jts1882]

History puts the Great into Great Britain

I thought it was the geography.

 

[scaramanga]

I think we need a pole

So you can slide up and down it?

Gay thread's that way
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[Danishfurniturelover]

i try not to do full stops because they depress me, like everythinig is over and finished and the is nothing next

 

[Boonie]

the what is nothing next?

 

[The Moonlit Knight]

It's two, and that is what they still teach.

 

[Skinhead in a Suit]

It's two spaces, as in you take your hat off when sitting down to eat (ie. it's traditional but not everyone does it anymore. Shame).

 

[Seedy Ron]

Never heard of the 2 space rule till I read this thread...

Same here, Edgey.

You lot had typing lessons at school?

 

[papaspur]

If you have two spaces, you're doing it wrong.