"no man has found 'pure space,'" - William W. Phelps ("If You Could Hie to Kolob")
I should be studying. I should be immersed in Spanish for the next two days, not even bothering with the English language & all of its nuances. I should be doing the problems at the end of the chapters, as I know that my professor pulls most of the test questions from them, or at least has some permutation of them on the actual exams. I should be studying my scriptures, & then getting ready for bed so that I can better utilize my morning study hours. Should, should, should... Debo, debo, debo... pero hay cosas que a veces no entiendo... Por ejemplo, grammar.
Alright, so, I was sitting on my extremely comfortable couch this evening, reading through my Spanish phonetics book, when my roommate expresses her frustration that one of the guys in her group put an extra (second) space after each of his periods, & that she now had to go through & delete them all... um... Did I just miss something here? I may have grown up in California, but I was always taught that you're supposed to have 2 spaces between sentences... Well, that's if it's just one period-- if it's 3, then one space will suffice. This i serious stuff right here, a completely new concept/way of thinking. It just blows my mind... So what do I do? I start looking through my text to see if prof. Alba had a single or double space thing going on between sentences... I couldn't tell. Then I decided to ask everyone I know. John grew up with the 2 spaces, Andy's had 2, I have 2, Katie has 1, Mandie said that she'd heard of both (she's lived in Oregon, CA, & UT)... & that's everyone that I've heard from now. Is this a regional phenomenon? Does it differ in state across time? Did it start as 2 and switch to 1 for time constraints, or is the addition of that 2nd space a result of minimum page requirements? I just don't know what to think anymore, & I really can't handle this new information in the midst of finals (chiste-- it's just a convenient distraction from my studies). What say ye, everyone out there within eyesight of this blog? Two spaces, or not two spaces-- that is the question.
Andrew {5 Years}
8 years ago
2 comments:
About the spaces thing... I'm an editor, and therefore I know punctuation. :) The convention now is to use one space in between sentences. There are some styles (MLA, for instance) that are going back to two spaces because they think it provides more clarity. I guess you can use two spaces, but we editors actually think it's unnecessary. Hope that helps your dilemma. Good luck with studying! :)
what the fuuuu? whoever does one space is a nazi. MLA dub space fo life!!!
but seriously, i had no idea anyone did it any other way. how very very strange...
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