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Hootowl
| | Posted on Monday, September 28, 2015 - 05:33 pm: | 
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"It's one of those break-up-the-gray-area-on-the-page tricks, like shorter paragraphs, to make one's writing easier on the eyes, thus easier to read."
But only because of the font making an "I" and a "W" take up the same amount of room. There were gaps in each word, so a larger gap needed to be at the end of a sentence so you could easily tell that it was the end of the sentence. Two spaces was a crutch to patch a problem. It is no longer a problem, and no longer necessary. Spaces take bits too. You evil bastards are filling up the Internet with unnecessary spaces.
Bill,
"two spaces before every period". I think you mean after. If not...that might be even more diabolical. |
Reepicheep
| | Posted on Monday, September 28, 2015 - 09:48 pm: |
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Um, I was speaking from right to left?  |
86129squids
| | Posted on Monday, September 28, 2015 - 10:00 pm: |
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F king hell, I'm a published writer. This crap is simply aghhgravating. |
Aesquire
| | Posted on Monday, September 28, 2015 - 10:38 pm: |
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Spaces take bits too. You evil bastards are filling up the Internet with unnecessary spaces.
In Radical politics terms, that's a condemnation of the 1%'s leading to protests, shunning, and divestiture movements.
You can just see the fires burning on the Internet.
People will argue that the use of extra bits is hogging the Opiate of the Proletariat.
Bah, I Say! Bah! I have a solution!
Every sentence it's Own Paragraph!
( which wastes even more bits  )
Seriously, I'll try 2. 3 even. Whatever works... |
Hootowl
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 29, 2015 - 09:11 am: |
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"that's a condemnation of the 1%"
Darn skippy. What, you think the Internet just keeps on growing? No! It's a fixed size, and you're hogging all the spaces! |
Aesquire
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 29, 2015 - 10:05 am: |
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Reepicheep
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 29, 2015 - 12:03 pm: |
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Well, if you hadn't removed the spaces after the periods in the 4 octal IP addresses, we would have had four more bytes we could have snuck new numbers into, and we wouldn't be out of IP addresses yet.
Ergo, IPv6 is all Hootowl's fault. |
Blake
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 29, 2015 - 12:19 pm: |
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I'm with all the truly wise minds here. Two spaces is to sentences as indentation and/or double spacing is to paragraphs. Logic must rule. The guy who wrote Discus, our twenty year old forum software, must have been some kind of Marxist agent. I didn't know then.
This is not to say that Jeff (Hootowl) is not wise. He is, but obviously he's injested a bad batch of hops. So Jeff, if you'll just turn over your next batch of oatmeal stout to me, I"ll be able to inspect it and see if you can be forgiven for your new age punctuation blasphemy.
Interestingly, isn't it the inability to post multiple serial spaces that led to the use of double spacing between paragraphs, which I like.
As far as the toilet paper goes, I'm happy to be a monster. We don't even have a holder/dispenser. The roll either sits on the towel rail, or atop the tank lid. The time I save in not having to manipulate a dispenser/holder is invested much more profitably in typing two spaces between sentences.
So nice to finally see a truly socially relevant topic of substance here. Thank you Steve. But I must point out that on atheism, even your most thoughtful and respectful brand, nothing makes any ultimate difference. Repent brother! Declare the absolute and ultimate truth and righteousness of double spaces between sentences!
(Message edited by blake on September 29, 2015) |
Blake
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 29, 2015 - 01:08 pm: |
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I do perpetrate punctuation heresy from time to time when ending a sentence with a quote. If quoting a clause or phrase, I'll do as the rules dictate and "put the period inside the closing quotation mark." If I'm just quoting a single word in reference to that word, not an actual quotation, I'll often put the period outside the closing quotation mark, thus the "heresy". |
86129squids
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 29, 2015 - 01:36 pm: |
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"As far as the toilet paper goes, I'm happy to be a monster. We don't even have a holder/dispenser. The roll either sits on the towel rail, or atop the tank lid. The time I save in not having to manipulate a dispenser/holder is invested much more profitably in typing two spaces between sentences."
I only installed a TP holder because my sis was coming to visit! In all truthfulness, aint it easier just to hold the roll as you dispense the needed squares?
Someone at work, however, has the habit of leaving the roll on top of the hands-free trash can lid... SO AGGRAVATING. I'm gonna bend up a coat hanger to hang that thing today. |
Reepicheep
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 29, 2015 - 03:01 pm: |
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That's funny Blake, I do something like that too. The period is ending the sentence, not the quote in the sentence, so by God I'll put the punctuation outside the quote.
I know it's wrong, but I'm going to keep doing it.
Clearly we need a language with rules not designed by English majors... Which makes me shudder to think about the rules for French or Italian. |
Hootowl
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 29, 2015 - 06:22 pm: |
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"or atop the tank lid"
That's where mine sits. Although, I have a bidet with a dryer, so my pampered ass rarely sees TP. One good round of two different powerful antibiotics (they didn't know whether it was strep or staff and didn't want me to die waiting to find out, so they gave me both) and the resulting...ahem...bowel issues, and you'll understand the need to never again use TP. I sincerely hope this never happens to any of you. |
Elsinore74
| | Posted on Friday, October 02, 2015 - 11:00 am: |
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Pick up a copy of Lynne Truss' book, "Eats, Shoots and Leaves."
If our language is going the way of Western civilization, laughing about it may be the best we can do. |
Etennuly
| | Posted on Friday, October 02, 2015 - 02:45 pm: |
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I'm triple spacing every F$%@^NG word !
Help, I've lost control ..... it's like being drunk at the keyboard !
But the NEW BadWeB won't let it out that way.....over controlling socialist bastards! They are limiting how much space we actually use.....I knew they were watching! |
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