Poll

After every sentence, how many spaces do you add?

One
54 (79.4%)
Two
14 (20.6%)

Total Members Voted: 68

Author Topic: Single or double sentence spacing?  (Read 2362 times)

I was taught to use two, but I never really deemed it necessary.

One.
I honestly don't know why people do double, but idc.

I was never taught either way, but I naturally used one.

Two spacing is the professional way to use sentence spacing. When I type casually, though, I just use one space.

Care to explain why?
Double, taught that way by parents. Stuck ever since. Also helps with getting that extra fifth page my English teacher is so brown town about getting.
« Last Edit: November 07, 2013, 07:55:38 PM by Harm94 »

Two spacing is the professional way to use sentence spacing. When I type casually, though, I just use one space.
Most (all?) style guides say one.

i never even knew using two spaces was a thing
i guess that tells you how smart i am

My handwriting is really big, so two

Oh is this about typing

oh well, double spacing anyways just because of habit

I  have always used two.  I was really surprised to see how much the poll was leaning towards one..  Learn something new everyday


i am the far right as we all know

I have never encountered a person who uses double spacing. I didn't even know it was a thing

this  is  really  annoying  when  you  do  this
or do you mean like:

The boy ran.

Then he sat down.
« Last Edit: November 07, 2013, 08:45:29 PM by Mr.007 »

Double, because:
Double sentence spacing makes things usually more organized, and much easier to read.

if you have trouble reading singularly spaced sentences, you probably have a reading disability

this  is  really  annoying  when  you  do  this
or do you mean like:

The boy ran.

Then he sat down.
1)  No.  Between every sentence, not every word.

Like this.  I would leave two spaces between a sentence for spacing preference.  See how it separates the sentences more and better establishes a flow of thought.

(Out of personal observation, I've noticed that starting from my childhood, people seemed to type more with one space.  I've also noticed that people began reading sentences as if the whole statement were one large stream of words.)