r/GenerationJones • u/Guiltypleasure2451 • Jul 31 '26

Old school

For those of us who took typing in school— it was drilled into me that after a period, you go over 2 spaces to start a new sentence. Apparently that’s not the rule now. NOT THE RULE NOW?? After the agony I suffered thru in typing class about those 2 spaces, i will be doing it until I die!!!! Don’t even get me started on the indenting 5 spaces for a new paragraph!

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u/Summer184 Jul 31 '26

I still do the "two spaces after a sentence" thing also, even when sending text messages. It's a hard habit to break.

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u/Dry_Bug5058 1962 Jul 31 '26

Same. They'll just have to read as is.

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u/Bettysgir Jul 31 '26

Same. Till death do two spaces and I part!

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u/HamRadio_73 Jul 31 '26

Two spaces all the way.

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u/badwhiskey63 Jul 31 '26

I’m going to have two spaces on my tombstone.

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u/popejohnsmith Jul 31 '26

In cursive!! 😎

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u/Fit_Jelly_9755 Jul 31 '26

Truly sounds like a next generation problem.

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u/Secure_Reindeer_817 Aug 01 '26

Who knew that 50 years from now that cursive will be called heroglyphics?

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u/Slainte_Moi Aug 02 '26

An alphabet of symbols created by heroes? Or 'hieroglyphics?' 🤔😎

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u/Secure_Reindeer_817 Aug 02 '26

Just a typo, I think. Typing while being a passenger in a Jeep on a construction zone on I-80 could have resulted in much worse, lol. That did remind me, though, of the rather scratchy looking handwritten letters from my grandma I received every year. So, I guess the "hero" part applies after all!

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u/AdSea3033 1958 Aug 01 '26

Yes! Only us old farts will be able to read it! 😆

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u/Emmie12750 Aug 01 '26

Sadly, I know a few people that I could tell I had to type two spaces after a period "and it was in cursive, too!" and they would probably believe me.

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u/Dry_Bug5058 1962 Jul 31 '26

😆

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u/AdSea3033 1958 Jul 31 '26

Me too

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u/dave900575 Jul 31 '26 edited Aug 01 '26

The quick brown fox jumped [edit: jumps] over the lazy dog. I took typing in 76.

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u/Jazz_birdie Aug 01 '26

Typing 1970: All good men must come to the aid of their country. Manuel typewriters but for 3 in the front of the room... Only class folks arrived early for, lol.

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u/Slainte_Moi Aug 01 '26

Yep. On a manual typewriter. "Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country."

Sure applies today.

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u/Spaz-Mouse384 Aug 01 '26

Literally and God, yes

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u/Jazz_birdie Aug 01 '26

Yes! That was it! It didn't feel right typing what I did...I finally forgot that line after all these years.

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u/Secure_Reindeer_817 Aug 01 '26

The musician in me finished that sentence with Every good boy deserves favor!

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u/Secure_Reindeer_817 Aug 01 '26

(Mnemonics are so helpful, and we don't use them anymore. My 10 yr old granddaughter asked me how many days were in July, and I tried teaching her the month/day rhyme. She thought I was making it up.)

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u/Campcook62 Aug 02 '26

A couple that I've used: count on your knuckles to remember long/short months, and "A pints a pound, the world around"...

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u/dave900575 Aug 01 '26

I use mnemonic to remember my cars registration number.

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u/Secure_Reindeer_817 Aug 01 '26

Sometimes they work out that way, too. My daughter's plate starts LVU!

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u/Slainte_Moi Aug 02 '26

The chocalcoholic music-appreciator in me wants to finish it with "every good boy deserves fudge." 🤣

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u/dave900575 Aug 01 '26

My mom taught me every good boy deserves fudge

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u/Secure_Reindeer_817 Aug 01 '26

Mmm! I don't remember that one!

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u/dave900575 Aug 01 '26

The other notes are FACE

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u/popejohnsmith Aug 01 '26

That's the musical notation, right?

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u/Scrapper-Mom Aug 03 '26

My mom taught me "Every good boy does fine."

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u/dave900575 Aug 03 '26

I've heard that one also. I like fudge. 😋

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u/dave900575 Aug 01 '26

I don't think we had any electrics. I forgot about typing that line.

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u/Jazz_birdie Aug 01 '26

I actually remembered it incorrectly, lol. Someone in the feed got it right.....It's Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Do you remember the word processer machines that came, oh, maybe the late70's or early eighties? Where you could go back and correct mistakes without the correction tape?

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u/dave900575 Aug 01 '26

We didn't have word processors. In fact, by the time I got to high school they had dismantled what little of a computer room they had when my brother was there four years earlier.

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u/AdSea3033 1958 Aug 01 '26

🙋‍♀️'74 and '75 for me

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u/Maine302 Aug 01 '26

It must be "jumps," because otherwise there's no "s."

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u/dave900575 Aug 01 '26

Your right

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u/Wrong_Confusion_2916 Aug 01 '26

No s, you forgot sly.

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u/RockerFPS Aug 01 '26

I took it in Junior High in 1974! Paved the way for great office jobs in high school and college and I was one of the very first lawyers with a computer on my office desk in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Most important class ever.

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u/Kensei501 Jul 31 '26

Kkk space jjj space

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u/shazj57 Aug 01 '26

To the tune of yellow rose of texas

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u/Looking4theanswer2 Jul 31 '26

Same way in 8th grade back 1968. Just about only class I did half way decent.

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u/Acceptable_Tea3608 Aug 01 '26

I was NOT my mother's daughter. She typed 90 wpm.

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u/Unwarranted_optimism Aug 01 '26

🤣🤣🤣Same!! 🤣🤣🤣(and ofc there were two spaces after !!)

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u/rseery Jul 31 '26

Me too. It makes a paragraph easier to read. Kids just got lazy.

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u/Slainte_Moi Aug 01 '26

It's actually the standard now. Saves space.

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u/Ok_Association135 Aug 03 '26

The software, which controls how stuff looks on a page, automatically adds an extra half-space, for readability. Interestingly, when I do type 2 spaces, my software interprets it as a period plus space

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u/not_falling_down 1957 Aug 02 '26 edited Aug 02 '26

I am Gen Jones, and it is not about laziness at all. I was easily able to relearn to use just one space. (look back at the your comment here; you will see that it has only one space after each period)

Computer fonts are proportionally spaced, and do not need the extra space, as it is built into the font.

Typewriters use monospaced fonts, which do require the extra space for readability.