So, when it comes to typing

[rabidsamfan]

[Poll #1668357]

(inspired by an article over at The Atlantic)

(read the comments! Some are quite giggleworthy!)

Comments

[gentlehobbit.livejournal.com]

Back in the days of the typewriter, I was trained to put two. Then in the decades since, I was retrained on the computer to only put one for... gah... what's the term. Kerned fonts, or non-fixed space fonts.

So, depends on the format. :)

[amedia.livejournal.com]

Back in the days of the typewriter, I was trained to put two. Then in the decades since, I was retrained on the computer to only put one

My experience exactly! I remember being told that computer-printed pages on which two spaces were routinely included suffered from a "river" effect: that is, one could trace a pattern of white space through the text that bore some resemblance to a meandering river.

And when we were switching from typing to word-processing for zines (which is just about the time I first lost my mind became a co-editor), the advantage of the new one-space style was that you could get slightly more text onto a page and thus promise readers slightly more sex, angst, whumpage, or what-have-you per page. :-)

[gentlehobbit.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, I remember those "Rivers of White". :)

slightly more sex, angst, whumpage, or what-have-you per page.

Always a good thing! :D

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

I can get rivers of white from ordinary text -- just from the spaces between the words. Double spaces between sentences don't make a lick of difference one way or the other.