At my last job, a bunch of the older folks did not realize they had a "two spaces" habit.
It's a clear tell.
Saw this meme and thought I'd point that out.
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If you fucking illiterate children are going to murder language with "u" and "ur", I'll put two spaces after the period, which is the right goddamn way to format anyway.
The double spaces is a holdout from the age of typewriters, where spaces were all the same size. Modern fonts (non-monospaced anyway) already have different spacing between words compared to the spacing after a period.
If βurβ and βuβ donβt belong in normal communication, neither does two spaces after a period.
Monospaced font is great though.I agree however I don't know how to do that in lemmy.
Lemmy uses markdown, so:
https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/basics
Testing a few things
Or ο½is this monospace? ο½
Or is this monodpace?
Or
is this monospaceI don't object to you using this thread as a preview, but you might get better (or at least faster) results at something like:
https://markdownlivepreview.com/
testThanks very helpful
Putting two spaces after a period and using "u" and "ur" are not even on the same level. You can't say one is the same as the other, using a letter to replace a word is next level. A double space can almost be missed honestly.
Imagine being so deprived as to grow upwithour a typewriter.
False equivalency.
Youβre literally the one that brought it up.
Well... yah, fair enough.
Yep it looks and reads better than a single space.
Well Β said!
You know, that actually doesn't bother me as much as some other things. Your never going to guess what truly bothers me more than the short hand of u and ur. At least with the u and ur they have taken everything out of it.You're example seems to... Okay I was going to do a you're and make it possessive in this sentence but my aneurysm can only last so long.