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I feel personally attacked by this.
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I feel personally attacked by this.


Apr 27, 2020, 2:10 PM

How can they just change this? Shouldn't there be a vote?

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/27/tech/microsoft-word-two-spaces-trnd/index.html


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I am with you on this. We were taught to double space


Apr 27, 2020, 2:12 PM

and it looks odd if you do not. See.

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I was taught two spaces...


Apr 27, 2020, 2:14 PM

then had a law school professor explain to me it was unnecessary with a computer. Haven't looked back.

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It is too automatic for me. My thumb will rebel.***


Apr 27, 2020, 2:14 PM



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Re: I was taught two spaces...


Apr 27, 2020, 2:19 PM [ in reply to I was taught two spaces... ]

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Cat on a tin roof, dogs in a pile,
Nothin' left to do but smile, smile, smile!!!!


You realize that Tigernet cuts out the spaces and


Apr 27, 2020, 7:59 PM [ in reply to I am with you on this. We were taught to double space ]

you've seen a single space this entire time you've used it??

One space after this sentence. Two spaces after this sentence. Three spaces after this sentence. Four spaces after this sentence. Five. Done.

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Cole @ Beach Cole w/ Clemson Hat


I'm surprised you are old enough to be a two spacer


Apr 27, 2020, 2:12 PM

Most people who took typing learned it that way, but people who learned keyboarding learned it the other way.

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Manual typewriter - sling the crap out of the carriage


Apr 27, 2020, 2:14 PM

return. Loved the dinging of the bell!

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Took keyboarding 2001 in middle school


Apr 27, 2020, 2:32 PM [ in reply to I'm surprised you are old enough to be a two spacer ]

Our teacher was in her late 40s...so not ancient. But I was still taught 2 spaces after the period.

Didn't get corrected until my freshman year in college.

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Bout the same timeline as me, yes.***


Apr 27, 2020, 2:38 PM



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I'm a 2 spacer and I'm 36.


Apr 27, 2020, 4:27 PM [ in reply to I'm surprised you are old enough to be a two spacer ]

First I heard about just doing 1 space was only a year or two ago.

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S??? ????? ???? ??? ??????? ?????? ???? ??? ??????,
S??? ????? ?? ?? ???????? ???? ? ??????? ??? ????? ?????..


First I've heard about it was about 30 seconds ago. lol***


Apr 28, 2020, 1:42 PM



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GO TIGERS!!


We were taking keyboarding in the early nineties.


Apr 28, 2020, 1:41 PM [ in reply to I'm surprised you are old enough to be a two spacer ]

Now granted, it was on a monochrome monitor with a computer that only ran DOS.. But we took keyboarding by God.

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GO TIGERS!!


are they taking our 2 spaces away after colons too?!***


Apr 27, 2020, 2:18 PM



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Cat on a tin roof, dogs in a pile,
Nothin' left to do but smile, smile, smile!!!!


They better keep their filthy hands off my colon.***


Apr 27, 2020, 3:48 PM



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How else am i going to make a period while texting?


Apr 27, 2020, 2:18 PM

I'm fo sho not going to click on the symbols menu every time i need to end a sentence.

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You realize you double space and it literally makes ". "


Apr 27, 2020, 8:02 PM

(a period and a single space). If you ever wanted say an iPhone to make a period with two spaces, you'd have to hit space bar three times.

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Cole @ Beach Cole w/ Clemson Hat


metaphorically too.***


Apr 28, 2020, 2:07 PM



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Ok, here is the solution for us boomers


Apr 27, 2020, 2:28 PM

"If you absolutely cannot part with your beloved double space, here's what you can do: When Word marks it as an error, right click to view your options. You can ask Word to ignore this issue when it comes up again or view every grammatical issue the software will mark and remove spacing from the list of errors."

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Just retire and DGAF.***


Apr 27, 2020, 4:59 PM



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You can't change the rules in the middle of the game and


Apr 27, 2020, 2:32 PM

expect me to be ok with it.

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I refuse to change until such a time as somebody is


Apr 27, 2020, 2:34 PM

paying me to do it.

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I still use Freestyle and Lotus word processors and they...


Apr 27, 2020, 2:36 PM

both let me double space anywhere I want. Dump microsoft for Netscape now!

signed
coolest boomer

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Still running DOS 3.1?


Apr 27, 2020, 4:28 PM

I do miss the command line.

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Powershell is the new command line***


Apr 27, 2020, 4:49 PM



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You?!?


Apr 27, 2020, 2:37 PM

Whataboutthoseofusthatbelievethatspacesareeaxctlywhatiscausingglobalwarming?!!?

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DGAF. Will still use the double space AND the Oxford comma***


Apr 27, 2020, 3:11 PM



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Huh? Who is taking away the Oxford comma?


Apr 27, 2020, 8:01 PM

Majority of the world is single space and Oxford comma.

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Cole @ Beach Cole w/ Clemson Hat


GTFO.....My biggest pet peeves are


Apr 28, 2020, 2:08 PM [ in reply to DGAF. Will still use the double space AND the Oxford comma*** ]

poor grammar, arrogance without reason, and the Oxford comma.

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The details of my life are quite inconsequential...


Apr 28, 2020, 2:13 PM

Very well, where do I begin? My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low-grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a 15-year-old French prostitute named Chloé with webbed feet. My father would womanize; he would drink; he would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes, he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament ... My childhood was typical: summers in Rangoon ... luge lessons ... In the spring, we'd make meat helmets ... When I was insolent I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds — pretty standard, really. At the age of 12, I received my first scribe. At the age of 14, a Zoroastrian named Vilmer ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum — it's breathtaking ... I suggest you try it.

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Microsoft says? So Bill Gates is in charge of our language


Apr 27, 2020, 4:10 PM

too?

Who elected him grand poobah?

I sure didn’t vote for him.

2 spaces & the Oxford comma 4evah

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NO VACCINE FOR YOU.


Apr 27, 2020, 4:16 PM



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The change happened over a decade ago.***


Apr 27, 2020, 8:00 PM



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Cole @ Beach Cole w/ Clemson Hat


Get the guns and flags, time to protest


Apr 27, 2020, 10:55 PM

Govt can’t stop me from using double space.

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And here I was thinking it was an article about how beating


Apr 27, 2020, 11:09 PM

your wife is wrong...

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