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Dirt Road Junglist posted:I'm offended that someone continues to use two spaces after punctuation. APA still uses it for draft (not publication) work. Turabian only changed a few years ago. Almost every teacher out there learned two spaces, and even though most of the style guides have changed to one, nobody buys every edition to follow along.
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Dirt Road Junglist posted:I'm offended that someone continues to use two spaces after punctuation. It's an old habit I learned in typing class!
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Oct 26, 2017 03:33
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I learned to type by myself on a manual typewriter. Two spaces was the thing in the book that I occasionally referenced, and I think my mom told me that as well or something. As a sidenote, since I taught myself, I type a bit "wrong" and hit the "B" key with my right hand, and I only ever use the left shift. Because of the former, I can't use those split "natural" keyboards. By the time I took a mandatory typing class in high school, we didn't have enough Apple II's to go around, so I took the class on an IBM selectric. I typed faster than the typewriter could go, but it had a memory buffer of some sort, so I got yelled at the first test for not stopping at "time" until I held my hands up and showed that it was still going for another 10-15 seconds or so. That class was pointless. This post is not because you can pry my two spaces after a period from my cold dead hands.
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Oct 26, 2017 03:47
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The only reason to learn to type was so you could talk poo poo while playing counterstrike
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Oct 26, 2017 04:02
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As if not learn to touch type from poo poo talking in MUDs in the early 90s.
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Oct 26, 2017 04:23
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Memento posted:As if not learn to touch type from poo poo talking in MUDs in the early 90s. Just about to post this. Eotl 4 lyfe. Fondly recall the days of sneaking into the computer labs at Stanford on Friday nights and staying until Sunday morning mudding. Jesus Christ why did my parents let me do that...
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Oct 26, 2017 04:26
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Luckily I'm not that old.
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Oct 26, 2017 04:28
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LingcodKilla posted:Jesus Christ why did my parents let me do that... As if you don’t know 
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Oct 26, 2017 05:55
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Internet Wizard posted:Better or worse than somebody I know (a Marine so it's even thread relevant) who puts a space before punctuation? Checks out . Preparatory command ; command of execution .
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Oct 26, 2017 06:10
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Look at all of these scrubs whose typesetting software doesn't automatically space everything for them. 
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Oct 26, 2017 10:52
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Memento posted:As if not learn to touch type from poo poo talking in MUDs in the early 90s. island of kesmai and dragon realms were my poo poo
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Oct 26, 2017 11:53
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Dirt Road Junglist posted:I'm offended that someone continues to use two spaces after punctuation. I still type most of my posts with two spaces.
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Oct 26, 2017 16:07
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S o m e t i m e s I l i k e t o u s e e x t r a s p a c e s , t o o .
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Oct 26, 2017 16:10
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Naked Bear posted:Look at all of these scrubs whose typesetting software doesn't automatically space everything for them. This guy gets it.
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Oct 26, 2017 16:13
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Mr. Nice! posted:I still type most of my posts with two spaces. I only stopped doing that recently when a friend who is a copywriter has been trying to get people off the 2-space train. I just got used to doing it from learning on a typewriter.
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Oct 26, 2017 16:18
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I never learned two spaces. Nobody ever taught me or corrected me all through school. I blame learning to type playing MUDS on dialup AOL as a kid. Man, I cost my parents a lot of money. Hourly dialup was a racket.
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Oct 26, 2017 16:26
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I double space after punctuation. What of it? Although occasionally, I'll catch myself ending a sentence like this...
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Oct 26, 2017 16:35
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I learned playing FFXI
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Oct 26, 2017 16:40
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45 ACP CURES NAZIS posted:I learned playing FFXI I did actually learn to type without looking by playing WoW
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Oct 26, 2017 18:57
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i learned by playing quake before i had a mouse
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Oct 26, 2017 21:02
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I wonder if any double-spacers have even noticed that the forums only recognize one of the spaces between sentences. Test. |One space. Test. |Two spaces. Hit quote and check for yourselves.
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Oct 26, 2017 21:38
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lightpole posted:The only reason to learn to type was so you could talk poo poo while playing counterstrike Unironically this. This is why I learned to type good. CS and UT99.
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Oct 26, 2017 21:42
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Dick Burglar posted:I wonder if any double-spacers have even noticed that the forums only recognize one of the spaces between sentences. It's an ingrained habit that I do unconsciously. I'd have to actively think about it for probably months before I broke the habit and I just don't care. I don't really have any specific need for the extra spaces to be there. I would suspect that most of us just do it out of habits that are pointless to break.
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Oct 26, 2017 22:06
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DarkDobe posted:Unironically this. Or your dad taught typing starting when electric keyboards were all the rage, and made sure you were using the home row correctly before you could even read. It's like my childhood was some kind of bad shounen anime about secretaries...
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Oct 26, 2017 22:07
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I learned how to type playing Rogue Spear on MSN Gaming Zone when that was a thing. If you played on MPlayer/Gamespy you were a loving noob scrub.
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Oct 26, 2017 22:08
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NUKES CURE NORKS posted:I learned how to type playing Rogue Spear on MSN Gaming Zone when that was a thing. its me, i'm the guy you could never find at the power plant
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Oct 26, 2017 22:20
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Dick Burglar posted:I wonder if any double-spacers have even noticed that the forums only recognize one of the spaces between sentences. That's because html doesn't display multiple spaces in a row. That's not forum software doing it, but rather standard html rendering behavior for basically as long as html has been a spec.
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Oct 26, 2017 22:37
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This came out in 198fucking9 people,
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Oct 26, 2017 22:52
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I genuinely do not understand why anyone gives a poo poo about how many spaces come after a period, but it inevitably leads to a multipage derail whenever it comes up and that's just hilarious.
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Oct 27, 2017 03:28
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Is this a thread that can really be derailed though?
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Oct 27, 2017 03:33
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I hear single-spacers are notorious non-tippers, wipe from front to back and unroll their toilet paper from the bottom.
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Oct 27, 2017 03:34
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The worst people are the no-spacers.Seeing sentences coming one after the other like this drives me mad.Mad, I say!
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Oct 27, 2017 03:36
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joat mon posted:I hear single-spacers...wipe from front to back. Enjoy having poo poo all over your balls/pussy I guess lol
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Oct 27, 2017 03:51
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my kinda ape posted:Enjoy having poo poo all over your balls/pussy I guess lol he wipes outward like a true gentleman.
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Oct 27, 2017 03:54
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vains posted:he wipes outward like a true gentleman. 
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Oct 27, 2017 04:02
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behead those who don't post the animated version 
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Oct 27, 2017 04:03
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... how the gently caress he get the poo poo on the flip side?
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Oct 27, 2017 05:31
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He uses his crack to flip it. You don't expect him to rub poo poo up his back do you?
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Oct 27, 2017 05:33
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Smart
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Lemniscate Blue posted:I genuinely do not understand why anyone gives a poo poo about how many spaces come after a period, but it inevitably leads to a multipage derail whenever it comes up and that's just hilarious. People live and die by the APA style guide.
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