I was taught to double space in middle school, I believe. That wasn't too long ago and I am not a fan of the recent change to one space. I think it makes the sentences look smushed. Even though I hold a BA in English, I just really like the aesthetics of the two spaces, rules be darned.

I think that the author is being a little dramatic. Using two spaces after a sentence is unnecessary, but should not be classified as wrong. I wholeheartedly agree with aephialum's assessment of "asshat" and will continue to double space after sentences.

In regard to the Oxford comma, I was taught it was optional, but my elementary school self decided that not doing something because it was optional was lazy. Some people regard it as being a little pompous, but I couldn't stop if I tried.

Hee hee...I hate the Oxford comma and don't use it. My transcriptionists ALWAYS use it...I gave up removing it a long time ago.

The only time I purposely use one space only is Facebook status updates, because of the limited space - and it's still painful to do!

Many of the words that I type that start with the letter I end up capitalized, thanks to the magic of Autospell. Sometimes, it's just too much trouble to go back and fix,especially if I don't notice until after I've posted.

I immediately put this song on when I read Munchkin's post. I was hoping someone else would be a Vampire Weekend fan!

Good point - I will use one space to save room in tweets or text messages.

This Totally made Me Think of Earp. :D:D:p:cool:

On another note - I remember our 6th grade teacher making us type a book report on the computer, and told us to do it double spaced.

11 year old tld221, who grew up without a computer until 9th grade (and didnt take typing until... 10th?) didnt know this meant spacing between EACH LINE. My mother, who is still relatively young (i dont think SHE even learned how to type on a typewriter) told me it meant two spaces between each word.

So my report looked like this. Ms. Gill thought I was being a wiseguy and I remember getting a bad grade.

ETA: ^^^ even GC autoedits to single space, because I can see it as i'm typing, but when i hit "Reply" its all single space. Bah.

also, now i have this "who gives a f*ck about an oxford comma?" stuck in my head. thaaaaaaanks.

It isn't GC or Facebook - it's HTML. I don't know why, but it just does that.

Hah, this is ridiculous, I was taught two spaces in both middle school (when we took typing) and freshman year of high school (going over the basics for paper writing). I really wasn't even aware that people use one space. There is no way I'm switching.

I'm trying to type this reply only using one space. I've had to go back every time and delete a space. After 30+ years there's no way I'm changing.

I was taught two spaces in school. Then I entered the Marketing/PR world where everything resolves around the journalistic-style of one space. I use one space when I'm typing press releases or other marketing propaganda but will use two spaces for everything else.

This.

Once I started using a computer for all my reports and stuff in middle/high school I was taught to use one space after a period. AP (Associated Press) style is one space, so that's what we use at work. But for older people in my business, it's a hard habit to break - you often find press releases written by people 38+ have two spaces because that was the standard when they started in the business.

I've been putting two spaces behind periods and one space behind other punctuation marks for 20+ years. I won't stop now.

i double space reflexively. i took keyboarding as a HS freshman, in `96 or `97 and we were still being taught and told to insert two spaces after periods. i just realized i've done it twice already. i could single space it, but it throws my cadence off. i'm unfamiliar with it.

as long as i can clearly convey the concepts i'm trying to communicate, i don't care either way.

however, i'm not much for exclamation points!