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[DGuller]

Today I accidentally learned that you're supposed to put just one space between sentences.  What the fuck?  My school teachers failed me again. 

[Liep]

Why would you put more than one space between sentences?

[Valmy]

Why would you put more than one space between sentences?

Well that was how I was taught. Then I went back to school in 2009 and everybody was putting just one space between sentences. So I do that now.

[The Brain]

What kind of weird Soviet-US axis of double space was this??!? Freaks.

[DGuller]

Why would you put more than one space between sentences?

That's how Mrs. Friedman taught us to do it in 9th grade.  It did seem weird at the time, but so did not indenting the first line of new paragraphs.  With things like these, you should do what you're told and not overthink it.

[Malthus]

The ad is quite lively at least. 

I like the fact that it is a limited time offer. As in, the ocean may run out of non-specific meat at any time. 

[alfred russel]

Would you eat a sandwich described as being made of "ocean meat"?

What about one made of "land meat"?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/arbys-ocean-meat-mmm_us_56faac0ce4b0143a9b495256

I think it is a derivation of their marketing slogan, "We have the meats!"

[lustindarkness]

Why would you put more than one space between sentences?

Well that was how I was taught. Then I went back to school in 2009 and everybody was putting just one space between sentences. So I do that now.

One space after a period,  two spaces after a comma. Don't ask why,  I don't see the logic either.

[Jacob]

Why would you put more than one space between sentences?

That's how Mrs. Friedman taught us to do it in 9th grade.  It did seem weird at the time, but so did not indenting the first line of new paragraphs.  With things like these, you should do what you're told and not overthink it.

It's an artifact of the changing in forms of media.

Double space after a period was the standard when typewriters were the norm. Now that kerning and font choice are super easy, single space has (mostly) become the norm. Specific style guides may call for double space, but that's been disappearing this last five to ten years.

[mongers]

Why would you put more than one space between sentences?

Well that was how I was taught. Then I went back to school in 2009 and everybody was putting just one space between sentences. So I do that now.

One space after a period,  two spaces after a comma. Don't ask why,  I don't see the logic either.

I like one space before a question mark, because it looks better and I make my own rules, OK ?

[lustindarkness]

Why would you put more than one space between sentences?

Well that was how I was taught. Then I went back to school in 2009 and everybody was putting just one space between sentences. So I do that now.

One space after a period,  two spaces after a comma. Don't ask why,  I don't see the logic either.

I like one space before a question mark, because it looks better and I make my own rules, OK ?

Works for me. Go for it you rebel you!

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[Duque de Bragança]

I like one space before a question mark, because it looks better and I make my own rules, OK ?

How French of you. 

[mongers]

I like one space before a question mark, because it looks better and I make my own rules, OK ?

How French of you. 

I'll take that as a compliment. 

[Eddie Teach]

Why would you put more than one space between sentences?

Well that was how I was taught. Then I went back to school in 2009 and everybody was putting just one space between sentences. So I do that now.

One space after a period,  two spaces after a comma. Don't ask why,  I don't see the logic either.

I like one space before a question mark, because it looks better and I make my own rules, OK ?

It doesn't look better.