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Oil for The Gears, Revisited

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Twitch Boy said:
I was taught two spaces in grade school, and I kept the habit to this day. IIRC it comes from the early days of typesetting when it was easy to confuse a period with a comma, so the second space helped.

Most word processors/forums/word accepting thingies will autocorrect to one space now anyway (I think this is one of them.)

Another fun one I was taught: if a quote or parenthesis ends a sentence, the full stop period goes INSIDE them, "like this."
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A period should only be inside the parenthesis if the entire sentence is contained in it. For quotes, it's context-specific.
 
Re: Oil for The Gears, Revisited

Twitch Boy said:
I was taught two spaces in grade school, and I kept the habit to this day. IIRC it comes from the early days of typesetting when it was easy to confuse a period with a comma, so the second space helped.

Most word processors/forums/word accepting thingies will autocorrect to one space now anyway (I think this is one of them.)

Another fun one I was taught: if a quote or parenthesis ends a sentence, the full stop period goes INSIDE them, "like this."
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^^^^^^
 
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Deutsche Gopher Fan said:
I do two spaces as habit. Doing tons of papers now for grad school and I cannot stop myself from doing two spaces
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I've been developing and re-writing a bunch of our engineering business processes and you can tell immediately if I'm the author:
--Two spaces
--Oxford comma
--Consistent punctuation
--Consistent formatting

I have zero problems with using two spaces. You can always do a find/replace when you're done instead of fixing every instance flagged by grammar check.
 
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I had to unlearn two spaces. I didn’t even know it was a thing until taking a typing test for job consideration in Ohio. Someone asked before the test started. I’ve been doing it ever since.
 
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Co-worker of mine is a short man, can't be more than 5'4". Our job includes sanitizing storage tanks so other departments can use them.

Well, this guy, whenever he leaves a tiny bit of meat on the bottom, has to reach all the way in to get it. He's () close to falling in. Can't help but laugh.
 
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BassAle said:
Personally I think two-spacing is unnecessary with variable-width fonts.
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Wait, no, that would make it worse. A fixed width font left justifies the period so a single space is about 1.9 spaces. But a var width font leaves no extra so the single space is just one space.

You have it backwards.
 
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Kepler said:
You have it backwards.
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Are you sure?

In a fixed-width font the "." should be centered so it can also serve as a decimal point. Variable fonts eliminate the "extra" space.

At least that's what I saw back in the day when I cared about fonts...
 
Re: Oil for The Gears, Revisited

I volunteer at Out On The Lakeshore, Holland (MI) LGBT resource center. Today, the center coordinator walked in and said "Hi Amber, you're pretty."
 
Re: Oil for The Gears, Revisited

I joined a drumming circle today. It was primal, primitive, and I think I should get a pair of bongos or something to practice on. Next time I feel hostile, just pull out my drums and play.
 
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MissThundercat said:
I joined a drumming circle today. It was primal, primitive, and I think I should get a pair of bongos or something to practice on. Next time I feel hostile, just pull out my drums and play.
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If you're banging on the bongos like a chimpanzee, you could your money for nothing and your chicks for free. But then you'd be banned from the radio in Canada.
 
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There's a supervisor (not mine) at my job who stops by early in the shift just to find out how I'm doing and to wish me a good day.

There's another supervisor who flat out said "whatever you need" when I came out to her, and then kept the promise.
 
Re: Oil for The Gears, Revisited

Closed on my new house last week. Since Thursday, I’ve had five calls from a woman who leaves voice messages asking me if I want her interior design services, 26 years experience. Called me twice Thursday, again Friday, Saturday, and today.
I wanted it to stop so I picked up when she called today. She said she got my info from public record. Ok maybe.
So I asked her to stop calling me as I don’t want design services.
She then said “why don’t you get a bucket, fill it with water, stick your head in it and die.”

Charming!!
 
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