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1. iblogsometimes answered: i just use elipses… fuck spaces, just fill them up with more periods!
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4. rosiestern answered: I learned to type in highschool; we always used two spaces. I can’t unlearn this habit now, so my computer is set to delete the extra spaces
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7. bintom answered: I heard that two spaces was a holdover from typewriters, computers put in the appropriate space automatically so one space suffices.
8. cluttered-shelves answered: Two. Unless I use one.
9. trinibird reblogged this from nprfreshair and added:

   never, ever? never. ever.

10. mrcasually answered: The only person I’ve ever heard of using two spaces is my boyfriend. I’ve always used one and it was never brought up in school.
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12. uneamericaine reblogged this from nprfreshair and added:

    In this appartement, the American (moi) uses two, while the Frenchie (DD) uses one.

13. midnight-madrigal answered: Why on earth did people do this to begin with??
14. pickpocket reblogged this from quietplains and added:

    Without Oxford commas, everything would suck.

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16. jerrizle reblogged this from krysjill
17. tw-a-t reblogged this from nprfreshair and added:

    MWUAHAHA. ONE SPACE IS ALWAYS HAS AND ALWAYS WILL BE RIGHT.

18. mjchamplin reblogged this from nprfreshair and added:

    IMPORTANT.

19. inothechief reblogged this from castleoflions and added:

    There are people who use two (or more) spaces?! WTF, I never knew people could be that dumb!

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23. hanaquestion said: I was taught two-spaces during my freshman year of HS. Good lord, why is this even a debate? It’s the same line of thought that reduces A-grade essays to B-grade because it didn’t adhere to the minute details of Chicago Style/AP writing.
24. hanaquestion answered: I use two spaces. As was taught to me by my typing teacher during freshman year of high school.
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27. robsplantz answered: It’s what I was taught…now I have to unlearn it.
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29. erinat reblogged this from openthepavement and added:

    it’s a good thing i always hated the two space thing because it looked dumb so i never used it. clearly i should just...

30. openthepavement reblogged this from dealanexmachina and added:

    I never knew this; I was always told that two spaces was what was formally correct. I feel like a total moron. DX

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32. schentendo answered: I only do this when I’m writing a paper. That’s it.
33. grantmartin answered: In the early 1990s, when the convention changed, I changed with it. I was about 35 at the time. It wasn’t that difficult.
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39. julexs answered: I use one, and I think that I’ve never met one person that uses two or more!… Weird!
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41. peepthat reblogged this from nprfreshair and added:

    CHRISTINE !!! READ !!!!

42. allihaveismywit reblogged this from nprfreshair and added:

    No. No. No. No. …No. No. No. No.

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44. polygonal-lasso answered: My argument was never about aesthetics but more about the double spaces being a relic of typography, one that is obsolete.
45. hymnsuponyourlips reblogged this from castleoflions
46. optimistic-red-velvet-walrus reblogged this from polygonal-lasso and added:

    most pointless article, and...consider myself an aesthete.

47. castleoflions reblogged this from dealanexmachina and added:

    THIS FOREVER AND EVER.

48. quietplains reblogged this from pickpocket and added:

    I will use two spaces until the day I die, not because I care, but because I don’t understand why people DO. And here’s...

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