He was a big jamal crawford fan. I used to get upset cause he wouldn't use proper punctuation and such. He wouldn't put two spaces between periods. I am bad at punctuation but he/she was worse. I thought he was a "special" person and things would move on. Apparently they haven't. Cosmic remembers him well. This was over 4 years ago. He still doesn't understand periods.
This is the link.
http://forums.realgm.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=1049360
LOL.
I'm just curious to know what prompted you to post this now. Are you Cosmic?
Dat shyt all plucked up! Man don't easily foget improper spacing.
Hung with a dyslexic in grade school and the backwards stuff haunts me still today!
Putting two spaces between sentences isn't proper. It's mainly for high school and lower.
Allanfan20 wrote:Putting two spaces between sentences isn't proper. It's mainly for high school and lower.
This is true. I never figured out why we learned a specific style in high school that was not applicable to college or the real world. It was kinda weird, because I recall having to unlearn that habit and it took me a few years to finally stop unconsciously doing it.
Solace wrote:Allanfan20 wrote:Putting two spaces between sentences isn't proper. It's mainly for high school and lower.
This is true. I never figured out why we learned a specific style in high school that was not applicable to college or the real world. It was kinda weird, because I recall having to unlearn that habit and it took me a few years to finally stop unconsciously doing it.
I actually think you can get away from using two spaces earlier, as I vaguely remember my dad telling me to stop at a very early age. Maybe 10th grade. It's probably used to help the younger kids in some way. I'll ask one of the sexy female english majors I know. 
Actually it is something that changed as we moved from typewriters (with mono spaced fonts) to computers (with proportional spaced fonts). I learned to type on an electric typewriter, and learned to use two spaces. I also worked as a legal word processor in the late 80's-early 90's, where we also used two spaces - but everything was in courier (mono spaced font).
This site goes into some detail about the changeover from two to one spaces:
http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/spa...
I still use two spaces.
UK seems to automatically make the sentence following a period begin one space after that period.
One space. Looks like this.
Two spaces. Looks the same.
Three spaces. Looks the same.
Paladin55 wrote:UK seems to automatically make the sentence following a period begin one space after that period.One space. Looks like this.
Two spaces. Looks the same.
Three spaces. Looks the same.
it's not us so much as that's how web pages work. All spaces are truncated down to 1.
BasketballJones wrote:Actually it is something that changed as we moved from typewriters (with mono spaced fonts) to computers (with proportional spaced fonts). I learned to type on an electric typewriter, and learned to use two spaces. I also worked as a legal word processor in the late 80's-early 90's, where we also used two spaces - but everything was in courier (mono spaced font). This site goes into some detail about the changeover from two to one spaces:
http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/spa...
I still use two spaces.
Same here. I argue with my children that you need 2 spaces after every period. My daughter would get on me and say that it is wrong.
martin wrote:Paladin55 wrote:UK seems to automatically make the sentence following a period begin one space after that period.One space. Looks like this.
Two spaces. Looks the same.
Three spaces. Looks the same.
it's not us so much as that's how web pages work. All spaces are truncated down to 1.
Ahhh...learned something new.
You must still put two spaces between sentences, according to the graduate level writing class I took last summer.
kam77 wrote:You must still put two spaces between sentences, according to the graduate level writing class I took last summer.
I don't think I have ever been corrected for using 1 space though, and I'm an undergrad. Maybe this is something that will change when I reach the grad. level.
BasketballJones wrote:Actually it is something that changed as we moved from typewriters (with mono spaced fonts) to computers (with proportional spaced fonts). I learned to type on an electric typewriter, and learned to use two spaces. I also worked as a legal word processor in the late 80's-early 90's, where we also used two spaces - but everything was in courier (mono spaced font). This site goes into some detail about the changeover from two to one spaces:
http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/spa...
I still use two spaces.
Ahh! That explains it. Now I can say I learned something today.
