• ThwaitesAwaits@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I wonder if this is because older folx don’t change the default settings on their stock keyboard so it keeps adding a period after every space automatically.

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      1 year ago

      It looks like they’re hitting. The. Space. Key. Twice on their phone.

      After doing that just now I could see how somebody with tremors could pull this off.

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        1 year ago

        With some typewriters and older word processors, you needed to hit space twice after every period. It’s possible some people of those times didn’t understand the “after a period” part and just got used to double spacing everywhere. This likely got even worse when, as you note, some phone keyboards began automatically inserting a period on double space inputs.

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          Did you need to hit the space twice? I thought it was just a style thing where people thought it was better to separate sentences in an attempt at easier-to-read text.

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          Wow. I completely forgot about that, and that brings up some old deep memories.

          That makes way more sense than what I said!

          I don’t want to get old :'(

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          Surely though at some point you would notice and stop?

          There’s a difference between two spaces after a sentence and two spaces after every. Single. Word.