@wildherbs wrote:
WHAT? We don't use two spaces between sentences? I was taught that in typing back in the late 60's. I didn't know it changed.
@Threemom wrote:
Typewriters used the same amount of space to type an "i" as it did for a "W." Computers adjust the space automatically. Two spaces were needed to make it easier to identify the end of a sentence for typewritten text. Writing conventions now favor one space. It's not too hard to make it your new habit.
Interestingly, at least one MSC lists grammar expectations, including the single space after a period. Helpful, except that page itself is written with all double spaces.
@wildherbs wrote:
WHAT? We don't use two spaces between sentences? I was taught that in typing back in the late 60's. I didn't know it changed.
@pammie8223 wrote:
LOL! Have you ever gotten a note from an editor telling you what you had done wrong that was full of mistakes?
@kenasch wrote:
Service Check doesn’t like double spaces. I can’t break the habit so I’m always having to review my narratives and eliminate the extra spaces.
Holy heck!!!!@jmjmshoe wrote:
As a former editor, when a shopper was making careless errors that, yes, I could just fix and move on, sometimes I would. When it was becoming "habit" that they were making the same error in their reporting, I would contact them to make them aware they were doing this. I would have loved to edit for a company that paid a flat $5 per report edited....try 60 cents per report. LOL
@aribacat wrote:
I can definitely relate to you Pammie, I went back to school in my early 50's and took my first English class in many, many years. My professor kept marking down on my essays and would always give me Bs. He would never tell me what I had done wrong either. Finally after the fifth one he said that I needed to stop making the same mistake over and over again but he still didn't tell me what it was. This class was online and I was furious, I sent back an email and asked him to please let me know what the error was because I had no idea what I was doing wrong. His email was just as hostile as his grading and he said that I was not using the comma correctly. Evidently, now you use a comma before the word and. This was not done when I went to school and I let him know this. Come to find out that he was just out of college and I was his first older student. He finally apologized and changed my grade for the course from a B to an A because he didn't realize this and should have let me know what my error was after the first essay.
@pammie8223 wrote:
@Threemom wrote:
Typewriters used the same amount of space to type an "i" as it did for a "W." Computers adjust the space automatically. Two spaces were needed to make it easier to identify the end of a sentence for typewritten text. Writing conventions now favor one space. It's not too hard to make it your new habit.
Interestingly, at least one MSC lists grammar expectations, including the single space after a period. Helpful, except that page itself is written with all double spaces.
@wildherbs wrote:
WHAT? We don't use two spaces between sentences? I was taught that in typing back in the late 60's. I didn't know it changed.
LOL! Have you ever gotten a note from an editor telling you what you had done wrong that was full of mistakes?
@Fidobaxter wrote:
I sympathize with you! A specific company I used to do phone shops for did this all the time and they were measly 5 dollar shops. I would wind up taking 45 minutes to listen to my recorded call and write down everything verbatim and still get a response back that I missed a comma, or the total time for the call was off by seconds etc. I stopped doing their shops almost completely because it just isn't worth it for me (or my sanity).
@quovatis wrote:
I got an 8/10 on a report because I used 2 spaces after each sentence, just like I was taught in school. Apparently, the standard is one space now, but that's still a ridiculous reason to knock me down two points. Whatever, I got paid.
@wildherbs wrote:
WHAT? We don't use two spaces between sentences? I was taught that in typing back in the late 60's. I didn't know it changed.
@myst4au wrote:
IMHO, because they can (send it back, that is). A minor power trip.@JASFLALMT wrote:
Now why in the world would the editor not just check the uploaded receipt for the tracking number and correct it?
@wildherbs wrote:
WHAT? We don't use two spaces between sentences? I was taught that in typing back in the late 60's. I didn't know it changed.
@Irene_L.A. wrote:
I always use double space as I learned that in High school from a British English teacher whom I respected and believed, so happy to say, in thirteen years I've never been called on it. The Editors really don't know if single space is correct, who changed it and when, or is English taught differently in other parts of the country?