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`lag
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Interesting, Will won't let me do that in the subject line.

Interesting, Will won't let me do it in the subject line, but can do it in the body. Well, OK, not really that interesting. ** Edited by `lag at 5/19/2024, 1:16:14 PM
Posted: 05/19/2024 at 12:20 PM ET
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I just decided to google a question that I have had ever since
IB4TECH • 05/19/24 10:16 AM ET
Yeah the 2 vs 1 happened a while ago and I continue to do both
turkeywinghokie • 05/19/24 08:07 PM ET
Being a male, I've never had a period, let alone 2.**
7Hokie1 • 05/19/24 07:04 PM ET
Yep, we were taught two spaces back in the day.
Will StewartAdmin • 05/19/24 03:16 PM ET
Word has a setting for spellcheck to catch two spaces after a period now.
JSCVPI20 • 05/19/24 03:23 PM ET
Been using one space since the 80s, every so often someone challenges it
WestyHokie • 05/19/24 12:52 PM ET
I'm going to three spaces. It just relaxes me a little bit. Really.
`lag • 05/19/24 12:19 PM ET
Then this should make you anxious...
IB4TECH • 05/19/24 12:54 PM ET
Let's go with the extra space between words. Drives Word crazy.**
TomTurkey • 05/19/24 01:44 PM ET
Hmmmm
`lag • 05/19/24 03:14 PM ET
I. Like. It**
TomTurkey • 05/19/24 07:17 PM ET
Wait until someone misses a period Then you get really nervous**
MP4VT2004 • 05/19/24 01:12 PM ET
AWWAAAGGHHHHH! Stop IT!! Please stop it! OK, OK I had thirteen items in
`lag • 05/19/24 01:10 PM ET
Interesting, Will won't let me do that in the subject line. ◄
`lag • 05/19/24 12:20 PM ET
WAS taught during typewriter days to help separate a new sentence. The ->
HOKIERIT • 05/19/24 12:08 PM ET
The problem is an automatic period/next word cap disappears **
83Hokie • 05/19/24 12:07 PM ET
I can't wait until it becomes a reason why 'older' folks resumes are not
Vtskier1 • 05/19/24 11:32 AM ET
.......ok**
MEHOKIE • 05/19/24 11:04 AM ET
I believe the change from two spaces to one space originated from….
scoop76cs • 05/19/24 10:50 AM ET
Was the Oxford comma replaced by Oxford cloth?**
PhotoHokieNC • 05/19/24 11:24 AM ET
Making way for the Cambridge semicolon**
TomTurkey • 05/19/24 07:19 PM ET
And the Amherst Ampersand**
PhotoHokieNC • 05/20/24 12:37 AM ET
Yep...prima cotton, high thread count per inch.**
HOKIERIT • 05/19/24 12:10 PM ET
It was @Coattail Hokie fwiw**
PhotoHokieNC • 05/19/24 10:21 AM ET
I am beholden to @Coattail Hokie. He is the man.**
IB4TECH • 05/19/24 10:26 AM ET
Are you going to drop the Oxford comma too? Hmmm? Heathen!
Hokie CPA • 05/19/24 10:18 AM ET
Gotta say, I had to Google it. I used it sometimes and sometimes not. It->
HOKIERIT • 05/19/24 12:19 PM ET
Never knew it was called that, but remember the controversy...
`lag • 05/19/24 12:34 PM ET
I use it more often than not, but stopped using double-space.**
Tank • 05/19/24 10:39 AM ET
seriously, have we become so lazy that the extra space is too much to ask
Vienna_Hokie • 05/19/24 10:39 AM ET
Whether you are being rhetorical or not, what is an Oxford comma?**
IB4TECH • 05/19/24 10:25 AM ET
it's that comma that you used to get marked off for in English class
Vienna_Hokie • 05/19/24 10:55 AM ET
I was taught that the comma never preceded and. BUT, if you're trying to
IB4TECH • 05/19/24 12:33 PM ET
Depends on if that’s two things or three things.
PhotoHokieNC • 05/19/24 11:26 AM ET
that is what I was taught as well, but the penguin in 11th grade disagreed
Vienna_Hokie • 05/19/24 11:42 AM ET