Poll: spacing after a sentence
A very important question which is used to separate the professionals from your run of the mill typing clown.
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Re: Pole: spacing after a sentence
Two spaces.Originally posted by EWRMETS -
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It is two spaces when seperating sentences in any type of written work. There is only one space if using a comma in a sentence.Comment
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I think we've had this pole/poll before. The boards here automatically put one space after a sentence even if the poster put two. It's magical.Comment
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It used to be two with typewriters and characters taking up the same width. But, today, with proportionately spaced characters, the usage is no longer necessary.
It's one space."It may well be that we spectators, who are not divinely gifted as athletes, are the only ones able to truly see, articulate and animate the experience of the gift we are denied. And that those who receive and act out the gift of athletic genius must, perforce, be blind and dumb about it -- and not because blindness and dumbness are the price of the gift, but because they are its essence." - David Foster Wallace
"You'll not find more penny-wise/pound-foolish behavior than in Major League Baseball." - Rob NeyerComment
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Re: Pole: spacing after a sentence
there was already a poll on this
http://www.operationsports.com/forum...sentences.htmlComment
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what. is a.. Sentence?NFL
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I use 2 in my essays and 1 everywhere else.Blind to this impending fate
We let the world carry our weight
It's back breaks with every mile
But we all live in denialComment
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1 space.Member of The OS Baseball Rocket Scientists AssociationComment
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Two spaces for professional, one everywhere else.Member of the Official OS Bills Backers Club
"Baseball is the most important thing that doesn't matter at all" - Robert B. ParkerComment
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From the MLA handbook (which pretty much every college kid has heard of and most professors and teachers across the country recognize and use - except for those that use APA or something along those lines):
"Publications in the United States today usually have the same spacing after a punctuation mark as between words on the same line. Since word processors make available the same fonts used by typesetters for printed works, many writers, influenced by the look of typeset publications, now leave only one space after a concluding punctuation mark. In addition, most publishers' guidelines for preparing a manuscript on disk ask authors to type only the spaces that are to appear in print.
Because it is increasingly common for papers and manuscripts to be prepared with a single space after all punctuation marks, this spacing is shown in the examples in the MLA Handbook and the MLA Style Manual. As a practical matter, however, there is nothing wrong with using two spaces after concluding punctuation marks unless an instructor or editor requests that you do otherwise."Comment
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One space. I Just write way too much stuff to use two.Comment
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