Ya’ll (and specifically, Katherine) keep posting these articles like

Only if your WYSIWYG editor is too stupid to add the   after the first space. Oh, and you can have my second space when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.

I see this all the time when I edit copy. People also seem incapable of picking a side on the Oxford comma debate as well, so I’m always going through and fixing those to be consistent.

I’m not nearly forty. I’ve never used a typewriter (may have tapped on one a few times, that’s it), and I definitely know the difference between monospace and proportional width fonts. I’ve created a few fonts of my own back in high school for programming projects.

...wait, what sort of heathen doesn’t use 2 spaces?

Tossing the double-space after a sentence is just plain reasonable. It was invented to solve a problem we no longer have. Typesetters had issues, but digital type doesn’t have those issues. There’s nothing easier to read about a sentence that has two spaces after it, because we don’t have universal space sizing.…

Being over 40 doesn’t make you a baby boomer. That also includes most Generation X. And being part of Gen X, I’m very apathetic about this issue.

Two spaces. Full stop. Notice the two spaces after each period.

Part of my job is reading/editing stuff from my other team members. I’m an old, meaning I learned to type on a typewriter that works just fine without electricity. So I’m a two-spacer. Mostly. Most of my younger colleagues are one-spacers. Mostly.

Two spaces. Otherwise, logically, there should be more of a pause between words inside a sentence than there is between sentences. Commas, colons, semicolons: all of them are bigger than a period; therefore they have more of a ‘separating’ feel than a period - unless you add a space to the period. Then, sentences are…

Recent studies show that there is a big divide not with class and income, but with education, even at the higher ed level. The kid who goes to a community college won’t get the same education as if he went to Harvard.

No, you are wrong. It means that if 25% of seats are blocked than 25% of children zoned for that school will not have a seat. I don’t understand why parents want/need to send their child to a school they have to travel to vs a school they could walk to. Please don’t tell me about your crappy school because if that is…

That’s also not how their school system works. Schools get to set admission requirements, so the 25% that used to be virtually assured of getting into the best schools will now bump down the students who used to get into the very good schools, and so on.

“Gawker: If You’re Slagging A Competitor, Hey, Fair Game!”

So... this is the new Splinter News? Trying to beat Fox at their own game?

The agent asked her “if my trip to France was expensive and I said, ‘Yeah.’ I didn’t really get why he was asking that question, and then he said ‘It’s about to get a lot more expensive after I charge you $500,’”

and you’re pulled aside for a full body cavity search.

And probably belch in their face when they ask if there is anything I want to declare.

Fair points. I bet most people never read the rules when they get Global Entry or TSA pre check or anything else that they just feel is going to make their lives easier but don’t realize the responsibilities involved.

If I was her, I’d do it again, but the next time, I’d wait while i was ten people back in the line of customs, make sure to lock eyes with the agent ahead of me and then eat the whole thing in front of them before I made it to them. And probably belch in their face when they ask if there is anything I want to declare.