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  • GroteStreet 🦘@aussie.zone
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    1 year ago

    Please don’t take this the wrong way, but were you trained in the arcane arts of typewriting? The only time I’ve seen anyone do double spaces after a punctuation was when dad taught me how to use the typewriter as a kid.

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      Yes, I was trained on a typewriter. My fingers insist on the double space and my brain is no longer involved in the process. I don’t think I could change now, no matter how much I wanted to!

      To give you an idea of the timeframe, I came first place in my typing class, an achievement for which I was awarded a Brashes voucher 🤣

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        Brashes voucher

        So, according to Wikipedia, some time between 1860 and 1990… I’m just gonna take the midpoint and assume 1920s.

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          Spot on! I will be 111 this year. So after a full century of double spacing it is definitely too hard a habbit to change now.

          Fortunately it was actually the latter end of that range. We even had newfangled electric typewriters.

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      Ha, nice catch! I recently noticed an older colleague doing the double spaces and it brought back memories of my mum teaching me how to type. Not sure when I dropped it, it looks weird to me now once I notice it.