Message Forum: Re: "there's a couple"

Re: "there's a couple"

Posted By: Howard, on host 70.153.123.138
Date: Monday, October 16, 2006, at 14:53:31
In Reply To: Re: "there's a couple" posted by Darien on Sunday, October 15, 2006, at 23:21:44:

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> In other news, I notice you put two spaces between your periods and the beginnings of the next sentences. I understand this is SOP, but it never fails to make me laugh; does it serve an actual purpose, or is it just convention?

When I took typing in 1949, they taught us to put two spaces between sentences. It is actually a little easier to read that way, but I'm not sure why. However, most word processing programs seem to remove the extra space. Those programs were not likely written by my old typing teacher.
Howard

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Message:	> > > > In other news, I notice you put two spaces between your periods and the beginnings of the next sentences. I understand this is SOP, but it never fails to make me laugh; does it serve an actual purpose, or is it just convention? > > When I took typing in 1949, they taught us to put two spaces between sentences. It is actually a little easier to read that way, but I'm not sure why. However, most word processing programs seem to remove the extra space. Those programs were not likely written by my old typing teacher. > Howard
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