Please don’t take this the wrong way, but were you trained in the arcane arts of typewriting? The only time I’ve seen anyone do double spaces after a punctuation was when dad taught me how to use the typewriter as a kid.
Yes, I was trained on a typewriter. My fingers insist on the double space and my brain is no longer involved in the process. I don’t think I could change now, no matter how much I wanted to!
To give you an idea of the timeframe, I came first place in my typing class, an achievement for which I was awarded a Brashes voucher 🤣
Ha, nice catch! I recently noticed an older colleague doing the double spaces and it brought back memories of my mum teaching me how to type. Not sure when I dropped it, it looks weird to me now once I notice it.
I’m at work and forgot to bring in my noise cancelling headphones. The TV is on and its constant Trump rally “news”. 😞
Please don’t take this the wrong way, but were you trained in the arcane arts of typewriting? The only time I’ve seen anyone do double spaces after a punctuation was when dad taught me how to use the typewriter as a kid.
Yes, I was trained on a typewriter. My fingers insist on the double space and my brain is no longer involved in the process. I don’t think I could change now, no matter how much I wanted to!
To give you an idea of the timeframe, I came first place in my typing class, an achievement for which I was awarded a Brashes voucher 🤣
So, according to Wikipedia, some time between 1860 and 1990… I’m just gonna take the midpoint and assume 1920s.
Spot on! I will be 111 this year. So after a full century of double spacing it is definitely too hard a habbit to change now.
Fortunately it was actually the latter end of that range. We even had newfangled electric typewriters.
Uncle, I heard you’ve had this magic ring for a while.
Heh, samesies!
Happy Eleventy-first! :)
Ha, nice catch! I recently noticed an older colleague doing the double spaces and it brought back memories of my mum teaching me how to type. Not sure when I dropped it, it looks weird to me now once I notice it.
The news being on the TV was probably the worst part of giving blood the other day. Fuckin free to air news is the pits.