I’m a two-spacer, thank you

I’m a two-spacer, thank you January 14, 2011

Whoa, this Farhod Manjoo guy gets excited about two spaces after a period. I’m from the typewriter age and I think I use two spaces everytime.

Here’s a fellow who’s been using computers since at least the mid-1980s, a guy whose globetrotting tech-wizardry has come to symbolize all that’s revolutionary about the digital age. Yet when he sits down to type, Julian Assange reverts to an antiquated habit that would not have been out of place in the secretarial pools of the 1950s: He uses two spaces after every period. Which—for the record—is totally, completely, utterly, and inarguably wrong.

What about you?


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