Stop Putting Two Spaces After a Period!
Despite what countless people seem to think, it is "totally, completely, utterly, and inarguably wrong" to use two spaces after a period, writes Farhad Manjoo. It has been the case since the early 20th century, but you would not know it based on his readers or his friends: When he asked a dinner party group consisting of doctors and computer programmers, "Everyone -- everyone! -- said it was proper to use two spaces." When he told them they were doing it wrong, they ask: Says who? In one word: Typographers. It is a "canonical" rule of the profession, "in the same way that waiters know that the salad fork goes to the left of the dinner fork." So why do we insert spaces to our heart's delight? Blame manual typewriters, which used monospaced type -- each letter was afforded the same amount of space. On those machines, two spaces after a period made things more readable. But nearly every font on the modern PC is proportional: an "I" gets less space than an "N," for example. Now, "adding two spaces after a period no longer enhances readability, typographers say. It diminishes it," writes Manjoo.
http://www.newser.com/story/109731/please-stop-putting-two-spaces-after-a-period.html
I hate people
who go to Google every time instead of entering the address of the website they want to go to in the address field;
who design websites that require the visitor to type in "www" before the actual domain name; who always click twice, on any button or any shortcut, and always send the same email twice;who never pay any attention to the subject line in their emails, seldom related to what the subject of their email is;who add an extra space in front of the subject line of their email message;
who write the full content of their email message into the subject line;
who place two spaces after a full stop;
who use the acute accent in place of the apostrophe;
who do not realise that traffic in spiral staircases is left-hand;
who always press the traffic light button -- "just in case" -- even though a person on the other side has already done so;
who always stop their car on the crosswalk when waiting to turn, thus blocking pedestrians and cyclists;
who never stop their car when they see a pedestrian about the cross the road, regardless of what the law says.Please stop doing this. It is wrong.
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