I did not realize this until yesterday. No, wait, it was before yesterday. Mmm, never mind it was yesterday. Anyway.... yesterday while typing Insomnia I noticed that I only put single spaces after periods. And I thought, whoa! That's so bizarre because when I type in Word or other writing programs I always put the traditional two spaces after periods. The even weirder part is I noticed other people do it too! When Mr. Watson was showing us something on wikispace, I noticed that he also left single spaces after his periods. I am not sure why I found this so interesting, but I was extremely curious so I looked at posts my friends made on facebook and it looks like a bunch do the single space thing too. Now I'm aware of my difference in typing from Word to on-line blogs/journals so I made sure that I put double spaces after all my periods.
Why would people, who learned to put double spaces after periods and used that style in all school papers, change to single spaces? I would think that habit would follow through. The quick two taps on the spacebar seem to not require any thinking. It's not really conscious movement that has to be thought about, just dun-dun and begin the next sentence. I should let you know that I took a break from the end of the previous sentence to the beginning of this one, so I saved this as a draft and went to get something to eat. I came back and opened this up and noticed that all of my two spaces were gone! Blogger automatically changed it! I guess that means I can't assume that if I see posts/comments with only single spaces that the person did that him or herself. Still, when Mr. Watson was typing he did only use single spaces, and when I typed my previous post I did use single spaces, so there are at least two people who diverge from the conventional double spaces. Does anyone else use single space breaks between sentences while writing their posts, comments or notes?
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^_^ It kinda has a better aesthetic appeal... it looks really strange (as to 2 much separation) on blogs or websites...
But correct me if I'm wrong... I thought that there's a movement w. respect to punctuation... that whenever u write a formal paper... u'r supposed to just use 1 space... rather than the old custom of using 2? (I never caught onto this trend... I like the old fashioned 2 spaces after period...)
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I agree! Singles spaces for blogs and such are much more pleasing to the eye.
Wow, I didn't know that we can write formal papers using only one space. Interesting how times change, although I too prefer two spaces for formal writing. Hmm do you happen to know why there is a single space movement? I'm pretty curious.
I like that you pay attention to things like spaces after periods. Officially, it used to be two spaces. But MLA changed it to one about, maybe, 8 or 10 years ago.
Regarding YouTube, next to each video on the site, you'll see a line of code to embed the video (URL). You copy that line of code and paste it into a post. I can show you.
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