For me, it may be that the toilet paper roll needs to have the open end away from the wall. I don’t want to reach under the roll to take a piece! That’s ludicrous!
That or my recent addiction to correcting people when they use “less” when they should use “fewer”
I don’t care what they say, a single space after a period at the end of a sentence is NOT enough. Now get offa my lawn!
Here here. And I know some modern word processors already put a slightly larger space after a sentence, but it isn’t two full spaces and that mostly only happens in non-monospace fonts where a space character is barely a gap to start with. Two full spaces after every sentence. Yes even in SMS where there is a character limit. If I can’t fit what I want to say properly then I’m not saying it and these damn kids can rot in their unintelligible run-on looking dribble.
I’d normally let this go, but since the whole post is about being pedantic imma make an exception:
Here here
I’m afraid that’s actually "hear, hear.’
There’s actually a reason for the change: Modern devices are more like typesetters — what you type is kerned / not monospaced. That’s why you don’t use two spaces like you did on a typewriter. Can you imagine reading a paperback novel where every sentence has two spaces after the period?
I’m aware of that, but I’m fairly certain the period’s kerning is the same whether the period is at the end of a sentence, or as part of an abbreviation. Therefore I think typeface designers tend to use a shorter spacing to be safe due to the differing use cases. I actually think roughly 1.5 spaces after a sentence is ideal length, but, yeah - we were taught to use double-spaces on typewriters since they’re monospaced.
