@Aim_High wrote:
@unsungivy wrote:As an aside: it's not his 40+ years credit history that shows @Aim_High's age, it's his double-spacing after periods. 🤣
Dag nabbit, @unsungivy, get off my lawn!
Now, seriously, do you want my 10th grade TYPING (yes, not KEYBOARDING) teacher to roll over in her grave? If I stop with the double spaces it's all on you. She might even come back to haunt you.
Truthfully, that is indeed how I learned to type and now anything else just would seem improper, just like the younger generation might find anything but a single space improper. Until you pointed it out, I think it might have been only the second time I've even heard about the slow shift, and now you've made me self-conscious about it!
But a quick web search shows it's been a very gradual change that has only recently been widely accepted by style manuals even including the holdout APA (American Psychological Association) in 2019 and Microsoft in 2020, only four years ago. In 2018, there was an article in The Atlantic magazine, "The Scientific Case for Two Spaces After a Period" (James Hamblin) with a subtitle: "A new study proves that half of people are correct. The other is also correct." Lol
Several articles point out that although the style guides have generally sided with the single space as the more current and accepted choice, there is leeway for double spacing if it is a student's instructor's preference or .... if it is a personal choice in non-formal writing. I choose the latter!
Anyway, I'm too old to retrain my hands for typing like that.
I'm a Boomer, and I plan to continue my old-fashioned double spacing.
Not sure how old you are but I'm 31 and In elementary school (I wanna say 4-5th grade) we had typing classes cause computers In everyone's home were still relatively new. And computers were still evolving very quickly so it wasn't a bad idea to teach typing. i was also taught to double space after every period. I don't still do that, I'm not sure when I stopped.
point is, if you learned to use double spaces that doesn't mean you are "old". I also remember the 2 handed technique where you place each finger on a Specific letter on the keyboard to help your tying speed.
If you type with 1 finger then you are old in my book lol.
@Cblough93 wrote:
Not sure how old you are but I'm 31 and In elementary school (I wanna say 4-5th grade) we had typing classes cause computers In everyone's home were still relatively new. And computers were still evolving very quickly so it wasn't a bad idea to teach typing. i was also taught to double space after every period. I don't still do that, I'm not sure when I stopped.
point is, if you learned to use double spaces that doesn't mean you are "old". I also remember the 2 handed technique where you place each finger on a Specific letter on the keyboard to help your tying speed.
If you type with 1 finger then you are old in my book lol.
I just filed to start receiving Social Security retirement benefits, so I think that makes me officially old.
A combination of typing class and piano lessons turned me into a high speed touch typist. All 10 fingers on the keyboard, with no need to look at most of the keys.
@Cblough93 wrote:
Not sure how old you are but I'm 31 and In elementary school (I wanna say 4-5th grade) we had typing classes cause computers In everyone's home were still relatively new. And computers were still evolving very quickly so it wasn't a bad idea to teach typing. i was also taught to double space after every period. I don't still do that, I'm not sure when I stopped.
point is, if you learned to use double spaces that doesn't mean you are "old". I also remember the 2 handed technique where you place each finger on a Specific letter on the keyboard to help your tying speed.
If you type with 1 finger then you are old in my book lol.
I brought it up because I read many moons ago there was a cut-off age that people over it learned with two spaces, and people under it with one. I was JUST under that. And yes, it tends to align to "older Gen X" and "young Boomers" for what that age is.
As an Xennial (look it up), we had a typewriter in my house when I was growing up, and got a personal computer in 10th grade. I never had school typing classes (although we did learn finger positioning in a 4th grade "computer lab"... and mostly used it to play Oregon Trail), and was also the last graduating class at my HS that didn't have a required computer literacy class. Falling between when things stop and start is one of the earmarks of an Xennial 😜 We had an "an analogue childhood, and a digital adulthood".
Double-space after periods? You're over a certain age. Don't even TRY to use punctuation/spelling/formatting? You're definitely under a certain age (IE, not out in "the real world" yet.)
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@CreditCuriosity wrote:The world has lost their mind. Y is considered a vowel by many(won't ever be one in my lifetime in my mind), AND can start a sentence now and many other weird things. Although we are way off subject of the initial post
Ypsilanti???
@CreditCuriosity wrote:Although we are way off subject of the initial post
The OP has been an active participant in the off-topic portion of this thread, so I think we're okay with the digressions.
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