The Innisfil experiment:the town that replaced public transit with Uber

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Barrister

#30
July 17, 2019, 09:54:03 AM
I too was taught to double space after a period.  I've never been quite clear why that is now wrong.  I continue to double space.
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Habbaku

#31
July 17, 2019, 10:02:01 AM
Monstrous. 
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.
-J. R. R. Tolkien

saskganesh

#32
July 17, 2019, 09:32:51 PM
Quote from: Barrister on July 17, 2019, 09:54:03 AM
I too was taught to double space after a period.  I've never been quite clear why that is now wrong.  I continue to double space.

Because the word processing software has kerning, making the double space unnecessary.
humans were created in their own image

Razgovory

#33
July 17, 2019, 10:23:35 PM
I still double space, and have never been told to do otherwise.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Eddie Teach

#34
July 17, 2019, 10:54:57 PM
Stop being weird.
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Valmy

#35
July 17, 2019, 11:13:40 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on July 17, 2019, 10:23:35 PM
I still double space, and have never been told to do otherwise.

Really? Nobody would let me get away with that at my job. Engineering school beat it out of me anyway.
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

The Larch

#36
July 18, 2019, 05:33:21 AM
This is the first time I actually hear about double spacing. Is it supposed to be a relic from the typewriter era?

garbon

#37
July 18, 2019, 06:13:59 AM
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Razgovory

#38
July 18, 2019, 07:12:26 AM
Quote from: Valmy on July 17, 2019, 11:13:40 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on July 17, 2019, 10:23:35 PM
I still double space, and have never been told to do otherwise.

Really? Nobody would let me get away with that at my job. Engineering school beat it out of me anyway.


Well, I haven't had a job in 16 years.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Zoupa

#39
July 18, 2019, 10:45:19 AM
Quote from: Razgovory on July 18, 2019, 07:12:26 AM
Quote from: Valmy on July 17, 2019, 11:13:40 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on July 17, 2019, 10:23:35 PM
I still double space, and have never been told to do otherwise.

Really? Nobody would let me get away with that at my job. Engineering school beat it out of me anyway.
Are you bored? Do you wish you had one?

Serious question btw. I'm not trolling or trying to be mean.

Well, I haven't had a job in 16 years.

saskganesh

#40
July 19, 2019, 06:34:37 AM
Quote from: Razgovory on July 17, 2019, 10:23:35 PM
I still double space, and have never been told to do otherwise.
Take a graphic design course. You will be told otherwise.
humans were created in their own image

saskganesh

#41
July 19, 2019, 06:36:02 AM
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Well, I haven't had a job in 16 years.

badump, badump.
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