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  • simosimo Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    that's because new york is a wretched scumpile full of pimps and drug dealers

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  • FaricazyFaricazy Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    not on their website they don't. furthermore, albany is a cultural shithole.

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  • Tweaked_Bat_Tweaked_Bat_ Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Faricazy wrote: »
    Harrier wrote: »
    Faricazy wrote: »
    A duck! wrote: »
    I can't believe so many people use one space. I had honestly never heard about it being acceptable until last year, at which point I dismissed it as bullshit. Maybe this is some kind of regional thing.
    really? the entirety of the internet being one-space didn't ring any alarms?
    I put it down to the internet being a cultural wasteland.

    Regardless, two spaces is proper. Two spaces is what is learned in English Class, and it is what will rule the day, forever.
    every single website on the internet is wrong?

    To be fair, most browsers etc don't interpret two spaces, even if it is in the HTML.

    But two spaces is stupid. I mean, it's a relic of the typewriter era. A relic.

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  • A duck!A duck! Moderator, ClubPA Mod Emeritus
    edited January 2009
    Faricazy wrote: »
    not on their website they don't. furthermore, albany is a cultural shithole.

    The correspondence we get from our legal office in the city has two periods.

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  • FaricazyFaricazy Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    A duck! wrote: »
    Faricazy wrote: »
    not on their website they don't. furthermore, albany is a cultural shithole.

    The correspondence we get from our legal office in the city has two periods.
    and that's terrible. 40 cakes terrible.

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  • Tweaked_Bat_Tweaked_Bat_ Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    A RELIC YOU MORONS

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  • L|amaL|ama Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    I had never even heard of using two spaces between sentences until now

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  • HarrierHarrier The Star Spangled Man Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    L|ama wrote: »
    I had never even heard of using two spaces between sentences until now
    You're a damn llama what do you know

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  • Macro9Macro9 Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    L|ama wrote: »
    I had never even heard of using two spaces between sentences until now

    I heard about it in a free typing class twenty years ago.

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  • AneurhythmiaAneurhythmia Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Two spaces.

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  • Macro9Macro9 Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    deuce deuce

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  • potatoepotatoe Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Tweaked_Bat_ wrote: »
    Faricazy wrote: »
    Harrier wrote: »
    Faricazy wrote: »
    A duck! wrote: »
    I can't believe so many people use one space. I had honestly never heard about it being acceptable until last year, at which point I dismissed it as bullshit. Maybe this is some kind of regional thing.
    really? the entirety of the internet being one-space didn't ring any alarms?
    I put it down to the internet being a cultural wasteland.

    Regardless, two spaces is proper. Two spaces is what is learned in English Class, and it is what will rule the day, forever.
    every single website on the internet is wrong?

    To be fair, most browsers etc don't interpret two spaces, even if it is in the HTML.

    But two spaces is stupid. I mean, it's a relic of the typewriter era. A relic.

    i bet you use a dvorak keyboard, too

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  • A duck!A duck! Moderator, ClubPA Mod Emeritus
    edited January 2009
    I'm also probably one of the older people on this forum, so who knows.

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  • FishmanFishman Put your goddamned hand in the goddamned Box of Pain. Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Most computer code, as far as I am aware, is still written using fixed-width fonts. There a good and sound best practice reasons behind this. There is every reason to suppose that this practice will continue in the most cutting edge of modern technologies. Fixed-width font is hardly 'a relic'.

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  • Tweaked_Bat_Tweaked_Bat_ Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Ok I guess we're looking at this from different perspectives.

    We're not using fixed-width font right now are we?

    t: Potatoe - touche. I still stand by my point, you filthy two-spacer.

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  • potatoepotatoe Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    i prefer fixed-width fonts

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  • KarnackKarnack Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    My grandmother beat two spaces into me at ruler-point.


    And she was taught by the government.

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  • Tweaked_Bat_Tweaked_Bat_ Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    And we all know the gubment knows best.

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  • A duck!A duck! Moderator, ClubPA Mod Emeritus
    edited January 2009
    potatoe wrote: »
    i prefer fixed-width fonts

    Same here, to the point where I'll type stuff up in Notepad and paste it into Word when I need to format it.

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  • FishmanFishman Put your goddamned hand in the goddamned Box of Pain. Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    *shrug*

    Whatever. I use it daily. I have to write clear and concise explanations and summaries of what the logical code is doing. I am obligated to format it and present it in such a fashion that anyone who might come along afterwards might be able to spend the least amount of effort trying to read what I've written and instead understand what I've written.

    Double spacing is what I use.

    There's no reason not to use it elsewhere.

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  • RinderRinder Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Double Spacers unite! I knew there was a reason I liked you Fishman.

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  • FaricazyFaricazy Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Fishman wrote: »
    *shrug*

    Whatever. I use it daily. I have to write clear and concise explanations and summaries of what the logical code is doing. I am obligated to format it and present it in such a fashion that anyone who might come along afterwards might be able to spend the least amount of effort trying to read what I've written and instead understand what I've written.

    Double spacing is what I use.

    There's no reason not to use it elsewhere.
    Yes there IS a reason in that most other text is not monospaced and is designed to avoid having to do this very thing.

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  • Tweaked_Bat_Tweaked_Bat_ Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Yeah basically.

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  • seizureorbsseizureorbs Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    A duck! wrote: »
    seizureorbs wrote: »
    Harrier wrote: »
    Faricazy wrote: »
    A duck! wrote: »
    I can't believe so many people use one space. I had honestly never heard about it being acceptable until last year, at which point I dismissed it as bullshit. Maybe this is some kind of regional thing.
    really? the entirety of the internet being one-space didn't ring any alarms?
    I put it down to the internet being a cultural wasteland.

    Regardless, two spaces is proper. Two spaces is what is learned in English Class, and it is what will rule the day, forever.

    I didn't learn this in english class ever

    that's why it's stupid

    Not our fault you learned English in the Ozarks.

    no, but thanks for playing

    middle of illinois right here

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  • FishmanFishman Put your goddamned hand in the goddamned Box of Pain. Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Faricazy wrote: »
    Fishman wrote: »
    *shrug*

    Whatever. I use it daily. I have to write clear and concise explanations and summaries of what the logical code is doing. I am obligated to format it and present it in such a fashion that anyone who might come along afterwards might be able to spend the least amount of effort trying to read what I've written and instead understand what I've written.

    Double spacing is what I use.

    There's no reason not to use it elsewhere.
    Yes there IS a reason in that most other text is not monospaced and is designed to avoid having to do this very thing.

    So you want me to learn two different styles of typing and the ability to switch between them depending on context?


    Yeah, sorry, I'm not going to inconvenience myself just to save you ... wait, what is it I'm saving you exactly?

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  • TallweirdoTallweirdo Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Karnack wrote: »
    My grandmother beat two spaces into me at ruler-point.


    And she was taught by the government.

    The government has obviously changed it mind:
    Item 2.49. of the U.S. Government Printing Office Style Manual (29th Edition, 2000) wrote:
    A single justified word space will be used between sentences. This applies to all types of composition.

    Link: http://www.gpoaccess.gov/stylemanual/index.html

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  • FaricazyFaricazy Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    if you can't tell the difference between monospaced font and non-monospaced font then uh

    well you might be blind

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  • satansfingerssatansfingers Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    the liberal media taught me to start one spacing. now i recognize it as the one true path.

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  • FishmanFishman Put your goddamned hand in the goddamned Box of Pain. Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    No, I'm saying that typing - well, touch typing - is a skill of habit, and that actually conceptually changing deep-ingrained habits actually requires significant amounts of effort and conscious thought. The cost to me far outweighs any perceived benefit, to me, to you, or your imaginary 'standards'.

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  • satansfingerssatansfingers Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    it's not that hard really

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  • SirToastySirToasty Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Singles space and the Oxford comma rule.

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  • FishmanFishman Put your goddamned hand in the goddamned Box of Pain. Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    cost/benefit analysis, please.

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  • FaricazyFaricazy Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    SirToasty wrote: »
    Singles space and the Oxford comma rule.
    Who gives a fuck about an Oxford comma?

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  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Ho! Ho! Ho! Drink Coke!Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    why would you put two spaces after a sentence

    surely that is wasteful

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  • Cold Salmon and HatredCold Salmon and Hatred __BANNED USERS regular
    edited January 2009
    double spacers

    more like

    double

    uh


    faggots









    8-)

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  • SirToastySirToasty Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Faricazy wrote: »
    SirToasty wrote: »
    Singles space and the Oxford comma rule.
    Who gives a fuck about an Oxford comma?
    I do.

    Gotta have uniformity.

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  • TarranonTarranon Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    After much deliberation, I'm coming out in favor of two spaces.

    ...

    Now to find out that the thread is on the topic of, oh god let's see...still double spacing!

    Hooray, I'm relevant!

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  • BusterKBusterK Negativity is Boring Cynicism is Cowardice Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    SirToasty wrote: »
    Singles space and the Oxford comma rule.

    Both wrong

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  • FaricazyFaricazy Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    SirToasty wrote: »
    Faricazy wrote: »
    SirToasty wrote: »
    Singles space and the Oxford comma rule.
    Who gives a fuck about an Oxford comma?
    I do.

    Gotta have uniformity.
    I've seen those English dramas too
    They're cruel

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  • SirToastySirToasty Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    BusterK wrote: »
    SirToasty wrote: »
    Singles space and the Oxford comma rule.

    Both wrong
    Also wrong.

    Making me right.

    Sorry.

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