Comments on: Let’s Firebomb the Internet Today, Shall We

By: Tesh

Tesh — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 18:39:01 +0000

I will always double space, even when handwriting. To my eye, it’s cleaner. Then again, I always put the period outside of the quotation marks when it rightfully belongs to the sentence, not the “quotation”. Drives editors nuts, but that’s their problem.

By: Thad Ehrlich

Thad Ehrlich — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:21:26 +0000

What you write plus the great observations already made before I get around to reading not to mention commenting, result in me feeling like I need to say something profound.

By: Bristal

Bristal — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:29:39 +0000

Oh, and now I see that your evil-empire blog editor has removed all those spaces necessary to allow me to communicate with the subtlety and nuance I require.

BLOODY HELL! (that’s 13 for the HELL, + 5 for the captalized modifier, 7 for the exclamation point, and 1 for the “go”)

By: Bristal

Bristal — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:21:20 +0000

Holy crud you people. It’s supposed to be two spaces between each word, three after a comma, & five after one of those symbols over the number keys! And seven, of course, after an exclamation point… (11 after a dot dot dot, and single spacing within parentheses).

Where the HELL* did you people go to school?

*13 spaces after a capitalized swear word

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:31:32 +0000

Poor Daniel. Still obsessed…

By: Drapht

Drapht — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:18:45 +0000

Well Hello! It’s a pleasure reading your blog,even though i have some problems understanding some things sometimes,because i’m not american/english.
It’s been almost a year since your last post on http://www.bigredkitty.com and I know you said that you’ll take a break,or at least that’s what I understood.You never said you’ll quit,so I come here and ask you:
“BRK will ever come back? BRK will ever make tutorials or videos with a lovely voice and perfect hunter?”
I’ll be visiting your blog frequently(hope I spelled right) and will be waiting for your response.

Best regards

By: Louise

Louise — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 01:36:58 +0000

I learnt to type on a manual typewriter! Will (lookee 2 spaces after punctuation mark) continue doing so! After years of teacher verbal direction (ie yelling) and paper covering keys until touch typing was ingrained. I’m not giving up my double space.

By: Aufero

Aufero — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:51:15 +0000

You have to read some of those sources pretty selectively to interpret them as solely in favor of single spacing.

From the MLA style FAQ: “Because it is increasingly common for papers and manuscripts to be prepared with a single space after all punctuation marks, this spacing is shown in the examples in the MLA Handbook and the MLA Style Manual. As a practical matter, however, there is nothing wrong with using two spaces after concluding punctuation marks unless an instructor or editor requests that you do otherwise.”

As for the US Government printing office, on all such issues they just choose whichever convention they think is most commonly used and standardize things that way. It’s not an imprimatur of quality, common sense or historical practice.

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:27:09 +0000

hmmm…I wonder where it all started since all these places/knowledgeable locales seem to indicate it should be a single space. I’m just so used to using double spaces after I finish a sentence that I do it without thinking. I was always taught that, from the time I started writing all the way up through college…how odd. /ponder

Oh, and btw, I like how you have your website set to fix any double spaces people include automatically LOL

By: Barkle

Barkle — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:20:53 +0000

The Bottomline:
Professional typesetters, designers, and desktop publishers should use one space only. Save the double spaces for typewriting, email, term papers (if prescribed by the style guide you are using), or personal correspondence. For everyone else, do whatever makes you feel good.
http://desktoppub.about.com/cs/typespacing/a/onetwospaces.htm

Lighten up Daniel.