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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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.