Snow White's stitching up the circuitboards

[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

[thez]

Eh, I still double space in word documents because I think it does look a little clearer. I had not heard of this new single spacing convention either, though I wonder how much the internet has influenced that what with various forum and journaling software that defaults to single spaces unless you specifically use nbsp; or because of alignment issues (on the forums I always single space because double spacing occasionally creates weird unnecessary indents).