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[impersona]

I am really, seriously horrified and overwhelmed right now.   I had absolutely no idea that now it is standard and proper to only use one space after sentence periods now, instead of double-spacing.  I have no idea how that knowledge completely missed me over the past twenty-some years, especially since I take so much pride in writing on the Interwebs.  

I'm sorry that you've all had to look at my horrible, hideous spacing habits up until now.  Single-spacing still looks really weird and wrong to me and it will take me a while to break from my ways.

And just to clarify, yes, I'm completely serious about how shocked I am.  I heard about the modern spacing conventions while at a meeting at work and went BUH and everyone was like "well, duh?".  Everybody being at least 10 years older than me too, and surprised that a youngin' like me wasn't taught about single-spacing at school.

Stupid single spacing.  I get it, it's just that the conventions of spacing absolutely never, ever crossed my mind before.  Double-space after periods.  The end.

MY WORLD IS UNDONE 

Comments

[prodigy]

Speaking from experience with AP style, MLA style, and ABA conventions, it's not really that ironclad -- a few official stylebooks have switched over to single-spacing, but in terms of what's likely to actually come off as professional in writing, it varies widely based on the context, industry, region, and country. No such thing as objective language, after all. So rest easy, you're far from the only person schooled primarily in the order of the double-space.