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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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[โ€“] Kichae@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

Imagine publically outing yourself as an agist POS with impulse control issues and an inability to rank issues worth talking about in any kind of sane manner.

[โ€“] minorkeys@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Never heard of this nonsense in my life and I'm a office worker who's over 40. What God foresaken American sub-cultural trashpile did this come from that these idiot kids from adjacent refuse heaps could start assuming everyone over 40 does?

[โ€“] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Good on you for managing to be offensive to both the Americans AND the non-Americans

[โ€“] minorkeys@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

It's a gift.

[โ€“] 0ops@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

Holy shit the traffic on this post is crazy

For those of you as stunned as I am that Word now marks two spaces as an error, there's how to fix it courtesy of Microsoft Answers

Although current convention is to use just one space when using proportional fonts (two spaces were used in typing because most typewriter fonts were monospaced), you can select which convention you want to use and have Word flag exceptions (or not). At File | Options | Proofing, beside "Grammar and Refinements," click Settings... In the Grammar Settings dialog, scroll down to Punctuation Conventions. You'll see that you can select one or two space or "don't check." As to why this just started, probably no one can tell you, but this is how to fix it.

[โ€“] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

It's a major pet peeve of mine to see two spaces after a period.

[โ€“] ohellidk@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

Sometimes autocorrect does that too

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