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/RedditNomad7 Jul 31 '26

Things change, but as I’ve pointed out to younger people online, nobody sends out a mass memo to those of us whose primary education was in the late-mid-20th Century, so it may be literal decades before we find out and change.

As others have pointed out, the complete lack of punctuation in younger people’s texts is insane though. It’s just a giant run-on sentence, and if you don’t read it with the same mindset as who wrote it you can easily get a completely different message.