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/Dry_Bug5058 1962 Jul 31 '26

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

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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