Talk:1285: Third Way - Revision history

2A02:C7C:7344:4C00:B55F:C42E:F5DA:9B9D at 08:41, 31 March 2026

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2001:4C4E:1C11:B800:34F9:178:1B57:97B3 at 10:07, 29 December 2025

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172.70.85.218 at 09:02, 28 September 2023

2023-09-28T09:02:05Z

Heleatunda at 06:43, 28 September 2023

2023-09-28T06:43:09Z

Heleatunda at 06:41, 28 September 2023

2023-09-28T06:41:03Z

Heleatunda: added comment

2023-09-28T06:37:29Z

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Sci0927 at 15:01, 20 December 2021

2021-12-20T15:01:10Z

Sci0927: 0 spaces

2021-12-16T15:41:36Z

0 spaces

PoolloverNathan at 18:33, 29 October 2021

2021-10-29T18:33:15Z

The Cat Lady: fixed the template loop

2021-10-16T16:48:18Z

fixed the template loop

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	:With the decline of "Mrs. Brown" compared with "Mrs Brown" (and initialisms not being dotted, all along; so not "N.A.S.A." but "NASA", and then examples like this even reduced to "Nasa"), the imperative to disambiguate isn't there. I was taught to ''write'' with more space (a little finger's-worth, when my little finger was much littler than today), for readability or even easy checking that there weren't any horribly-long run-on sentences.		:With the decline of "Mrs. Brown" compared with "Mrs Brown" (and initialisms not being dotted, all along; so not "N.A.S.A." but "NASA", and then examples like this even reduced to "Nasa"), the imperative to disambiguate isn't there. I was taught to ''write'' with more space (a little finger's-worth, when my little finger was much littler than today), for readability or even easy checking that there weren't any horribly-long run-on sentences.
	:I'd carry that on into <dot><space><space> when typing (and word-processing), but it is one of the 'rules' that I've felt unnecessary (or even not useful) to maintain after entering the online ecosystem (pre-HTML) and seeing how many perfectly legible but varied typing styles there actually were out there. Even from such benighted lands such as the rebellious former colonies, which I'll admit have introduced me to many small changes to my British styling, and occasionally even spelling (though I'm still solidly an "-our" suffix person, "metre" for length and will continue to go with "-ise"/"-yse", as I see fit, etc). [[Special:Contributions/172.70.85.218\|172.70.85.218]] 09:02, 28 September 2023 (UTC)		:I'd carry that on into <dot><space><space> when typing (and word-processing), but it is one of the 'rules' that I've felt unnecessary (or even not useful) to maintain after entering the online ecosystem (pre-HTML) and seeing how many perfectly legible but varied typing styles there actually were out there. Even from such benighted lands such as the rebellious former colonies, which I'll admit have introduced me to many small changes to my British styling, and occasionally even spelling (though I'm still solidly an "-our" suffix person, "metre" for length and will continue to go with "-ise"/"-yse", as I see fit, etc). [[Special:Contributions/172.70.85.218\|172.70.85.218]] 09:02, 28 September 2023 (UTC)
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		+	Could someone PLEASE explain the "typewriter story" mentioned in the title text is? This is such a glaring omission oh my god. [[Special:Contributions/2A02:C7C:7344:4C00:B55F:C42E:F5DA:9B9D\|2A02:C7C:7344:4C00:B55F:C42E:F5DA:9B9D]] 08:41, 31 March 2026 (UTC)

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 :MY VOTE TOO!!! --[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 18:36, 1 November 2013 (UTC)
 :MY VOTE, TWO!!! (not really) [[User:Orazor|Orazor]] ([[User talk:Orazor|talk]]) 09:20, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
+:1 space makes writing 1‰ to 1% faster, depending on sentence length. [[Special:Contributions/2001:4C4E:1C11:B800:34F9:178:1B57:97B3|2001:4C4E:1C11:B800:34F9:178:1B57:97B3]] 10:07, 29 December 2025 (UTC)
 Writing plaintext, I always do two spaces after a sentence ending period.
 This is probably because I did in fact start typing on a real typewriter.

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	Interesting…I was always told that after an abbreviation like Mr. or Mrs. within a sentence, you were supposed to use a single space, and then after a sentence you would double space. Thus you would always have a clear visual indicator of whether a period was indicating an abbreviation or an end of sentence. Makes total sense, is entirely consistent, just like that weird French rule about spacing before double punctuation. Truly, has no one else here heard of this? Thatʼs why Iʼm inclined (prior to doing any research) to be in full agreement with the protestor saying that the monospaced font myth is totally made up. That being said, I also see it as a complete and total waste of good programming on the part of whoever it was who even bothered to cause HTML, et al to reduce extra whitespace in the first place! Imho, it should never have even occurred to them to write those lines of code at all. People should be free to write their whitespace exactly the way they want it and have it stay that way, without some web browser daring to presume that it knows the correct formatting better than the user does. smh lol		Interesting…I was always told that after an abbreviation like Mr. or Mrs. within a sentence, you were supposed to use a single space, and then after a sentence you would double space. Thus you would always have a clear visual indicator of whether a period was indicating an abbreviation or an end of sentence. Makes total sense, is entirely consistent, just like that weird French rule about spacing before double punctuation. Truly, has no one else here heard of this? Thatʼs why Iʼm inclined (prior to doing any research) to be in full agreement with the protestor saying that the monospaced font myth is totally made up. That being said, I also see it as a complete and total waste of good programming on the part of whoever it was who even bothered to cause HTML, et al to reduce extra whitespace in the first place! Imho, it should never have even occurred to them to write those lines of code at all. People should be free to write their whitespace exactly the way they want it and have it stay that way, without some web browser daring to presume that it knows the correct formatting better than the user does. smh lol
	[[User:Heleatunda\|Heleatunda]] ([[User talk:Heleatunda\|talk]]) 06:37, 28 September 2023 (UTC)		[[User:Heleatunda\|Heleatunda]] ([[User talk:Heleatunda\|talk]]) 06:37, 28 September 2023 (UTC)
		+	:With the decline of "Mrs. Brown" compared with "Mrs Brown" (and initialisms not being dotted, all along; so not "N.A.S.A." but "NASA", and then examples like this even reduced to "Nasa"), the imperative to disambiguate isn't there. I was taught to ''write'' with more space (a little finger's-worth, when my little finger was much littler than today), for readability or even easy checking that there weren't any horribly-long run-on sentences.
		+	:I'd carry that on into <dot><space><space> when typing (and word-processing), but it is one of the 'rules' that I've felt unnecessary (or even not useful) to maintain after entering the online ecosystem (pre-HTML) and seeing how many perfectly legible but varied typing styles there actually were out there. Even from such benighted lands such as the rebellious former colonies, which I'll admit have introduced me to many small changes to my British styling, and occasionally even spelling (though I'm still solidly an "-our" suffix person, "metre" for length and will continue to go with "-ise"/"-yse", as I see fit, etc). [[Special:Contributions/172.70.85.218\|172.70.85.218]] 09:02, 28 September 2023 (UTC)

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 spaces after a period.yes.[[User:Sci0927|Sci0927]] ([[User talk:Sci0927|talk]]) 15:01, 20 December 2021 (UTC)
-Interesting…I was always told that after an abbreviation like Mr. or Mrs. within a sentence, you were supposed to use a single space, and then after a sentence you would double space.  Thus you would always have a clear visual indicator of whether a period was indicating an abbreviation or full stop.
+Interesting…I was always told that after an abbreviation like Mr. or Mrs. within a sentence, you were supposed to use a single space, and then after a sentence you would double space.  Thus you would always have a clear visual indicator of whether a period was indicating an abbreviation or an end of sentence.  Makes total sense, is entirely consistent, just like that weird French rule about spacing before double punctuation.  Truly, has no one else here heard of this?  Thatʼs why Iʼm inclined (prior to doing any research) to be in full agreement with the protestor saying that the monospaced font myth is totally made up.  That being said, I also see it as a complete and total waste of good programming on the part of whoever it was who even bothered to cause HTML, et al to reduce extra whitespace in the first place!  Imho, it should never have even occurred to them to write those lines of code at all.  People should be free to write their whitespace exactly the way they want it and have it stay that way, without some web browser daring to presume that it knows the correct formatting better than the user does.  smh lol
 [[User:Heleatunda|Heleatunda]] ([[User talk:Heleatunda|talk]]) 06:37, 28 September 2023 (UTC)

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 spaces after a period.yes.[[User:Sci0927|Sci0927]] ([[User talk:Sci0927|talk]]) 15:01, 20 December 2021 (UTC)
-Interesting…I was always told that after an abbreviation like Mr. or Mrs. within a sentence,you were supposed to use a single space, and then after a sentence you would double space.  Thus you would always have a clear visual indicator of whether a period was indicating an abbreviation or a full stop.
+Interesting…I was always told that after an abbreviation like Mr. or Mrs. within a sentence, you were supposed to use a single space, and then after a sentence you would double space.  Thus you would always have a clear visual indicator of whether a period was indicating an abbreviation or full stop.
-  Makes total sense, is entirely consistent, just like that weird French rule about spacing before double punctuation.  Truly, has no one else here heard of this?  Thatʼs why Iʼm inclined (prior to doing any research) to be in full agreement with the protestor saying that the monospaced font myth is totally made up.
+  Makes total sense, is entirely consistent, just like that weird French rule about spacing before double punctuation.  Truly, has no one else here heard of this?  Thatʼs why Iʼm inclined (prior to doing any research) to be in full agreement with the protestor saying that the monospaced font myth is totally made up.  That being said, I also see it as a complete and total waste of good programming on the part of whoever it was who even bothered to cause HTML, et al to reduce extra whitespace in the first place!  Imho, it should never have even occurred to them to write those lines of code at all.  People should be free to write their whitespace exactly the way they want it and have it stay that way, without some web browser daring to presume that it knows the correct formatting better than the user does.  smh lol
 [[User:Heleatunda|Heleatunda]] ([[User talk:Heleatunda|talk]]) 06:37, 28 September 2023 (UTC)

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	::You opened another parenthesie! ):) --{{User:PoolloverNathan/Signature}} 18:33, 29 October 2021 (UTC)		::You opened another parenthesie! ):) --{{User:PoolloverNathan/Signature}} 18:33, 29 October 2021 (UTC)
	0 spaces after a period.yes.[[User:Sci0927\|Sci0927]] ([[User talk:Sci0927\|talk]]) 15:01, 20 December 2021 (UTC)		0 spaces after a period.yes.[[User:Sci0927\|Sci0927]] ([[User talk:Sci0927\|talk]]) 15:01, 20 December 2021 (UTC)
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		+	Interesting…I was always told that after an abbreviation like Mr. or Mrs. within a sentence,you were supposed to use a single space, and then after a sentence you would double space. Thus you would always have a clear visual indicator of whether a period was indicating an abbreviation or a full stop.
		+	Makes total sense, is entirely consistent, just like that weird French rule about spacing before double punctuation. Truly, has no one else here heard of this? Thatʼs why Iʼm inclined (prior to doing any research) to be in full agreement with the protestor saying that the monospaced font myth is totally made up.
		+	That being said, I also see it as a complete and total waste of good programming on the part of whoever it was who even bothered to cause HTML, et al to reduce extra whitespace in the first place! Imho, it should never have even occurred to them to write those lines of code at all. People should be free to write their whitespace exactly the way they want it and have it stay that way, without some web browser daring to presume that it knows the correct formatting better than the user does. smh lol
		+	[[User:Heleatunda\|Heleatunda]] ([[User talk:Heleatunda\|talk]]) 06:37, 28 September 2023 (UTC)

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 :WHy did you not close the bracket :( <span style="text-shadow:0 0 7px black">[[User:Beanie|<span style="font-size:11pt;color:#dddddd">Beanie</span>]]</span> <sup><span style="text-shadow:0 0 4px #000000">[[User talk:Beanie|<span style="font-size:8pt;color:#dddddd">talk</span>]]</span></sup> 10:38, 9 June 2021 (UTC)
 ::You opened another parenthesie! ):) --{{User:PoolloverNathan/Signature}} 18:33, 29 October 2021 (UTC)
-spaces after a period.yes.
+spaces after a period.yes.[[User:Sci0927|Sci0927]] ([[User talk:Sci0927|talk]]) 15:01, 20 December 2021 (UTC)

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	:WHy did you not close the bracket :( <span style="text-shadow:0 0 7px black">[[User:Beanie\|<span style="font-size:11pt;color:#dddddd">Beanie</span>]]</span> <sup><span style="text-shadow:0 0 4px #000000">[[User talk:Beanie\|<span style="font-size:8pt;color:#dddddd">talk</span>]]</span></sup> 10:38, 9 June 2021 (UTC)		:WHy did you not close the bracket :( <span style="text-shadow:0 0 7px black">[[User:Beanie\|<span style="font-size:11pt;color:#dddddd">Beanie</span>]]</span> <sup><span style="text-shadow:0 0 4px #000000">[[User talk:Beanie\|<span style="font-size:8pt;color:#dddddd">talk</span>]]</span></sup> 10:38, 9 June 2021 (UTC)
	::You opened another parenthesie! ):) --{{User:PoolloverNathan/Signature}} 18:33, 29 October 2021 (UTC)		::You opened another parenthesie! ):) --{{User:PoolloverNathan/Signature}} 18:33, 29 October 2021 (UTC)
		+	0 spaces after a period.yes.

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	Is it just me, or is the wiki intentionally using the third way? (I'm a one-spacer. See?		Is it just me, or is the wiki intentionally using the third way? (I'm a one-spacer. See?
	:WHy did you not close the bracket :( <span style="text-shadow:0 0 7px black">[[User:Beanie\|<span style="font-size:11pt;color:#dddddd">Beanie</span>]]</span> <sup><span style="text-shadow:0 0 4px #000000">[[User talk:Beanie\|<span style="font-size:8pt;color:#dddddd">talk</span>]]</span></sup> 10:38, 9 June 2021 (UTC)		:WHy did you not close the bracket :( <span style="text-shadow:0 0 7px black">[[User:Beanie\|<span style="font-size:11pt;color:#dddddd">Beanie</span>]]</span> <sup><span style="text-shadow:0 0 4px #000000">[[User talk:Beanie\|<span style="font-size:8pt;color:#dddddd">talk</span>]]</span></sup> 10:38, 9 June 2021 (UTC)
		+	::You opened another parenthesie! ):) --{{User:PoolloverNathan/Signature}} 18:33, 29 October 2021 (UTC)