So who was correct here?

Yeah, iced bull "cream".

>The real question is why Janet puts two spaces after a sentence.

That used to be the proper typing technique, back when schools taught typing.

No, Grandpa. Nobody does that anymore.

This letter was typed and mailed sometime in the 80's, man. Typed. On a typewriter. And mailed. Through the post office.

That became such a meme Jim Davis had to come out and clarify it
If I recall correctly, he grew up on a farm and they had some protein drink they gave the cattle to help them through pregnancy. He assumed they must have the same thing for dogs

It's still wrong, but I think people did it because old typewriters tended to squish the space after a period and not provide a clean break between sentences?

You have to freeze sperm with special cryogenic devices, if you put them in a normal freezer it'd just kill the sperm cells. It's also not very funny she'd be shocked by bull semen since that's what she's probably already been injected with and wouldn't find particularly bizarre.

>OP posts a letter from 1983
>The real question is why Janet puts two spaces after a sentence.
>That used to be the proper typing technique, back when schools taught typing.
>No, Grandpa. Nobody does that anymore.

Another example of drive-by snarking having disastrous consequences for the snarker

Correct. I work in a job where we're still required to do it (and use the same Courier font, because apparently change is scary).

"Wrong" isn't the right word here really.

Snark from who?

My school taught typing on PC's. Not typewriters. They taught us to double-space after the ends of sentences and after colons.

It was Farmer Brown's remains

>Jim Davis rescues one of his strips from being funny with an explanation of the joke.

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The guy implying Janet should be laughed at for double-spacing.

Yes, that's a holdover from the boomers' typewriting days. With modern fonts and kerning it's an unnecessary affectation.

Gotta say I'm not sure how to feel about this. Been doing that since I learned to type. Hopefully I can break the habit. Gonna take some conscious effort though.

Well, it's not an icredibly important thing. Anyway, it's only really noticeable with single-space fonts like Courier. This paragraph has been two spaces after the periods and I bet you didn't even notice until I just told you.

Is the front door of your office a time-portal to 1975? Do you still type on typewriters? What kind of office are you working in?

It's not correct use of spacing, but may have been a necessity due to the limits of technology. It still annoys me when I see it though. Especially in a modern context.

Your school taught you WRONG!

Ha! No, I work from home doing legal transcription. Courier with double spaces is the standard for all court work.

And my little jest didn't work because apparently posts here automatically correct to one space. Oh well.

>all court work.

So you DO have a portal to 1975. My father works with the courts pretty often, and he can attest that the legal system is notoriously stubborn and resistant to change.

Tell me about it. We only recently had the standardized spelling changed from "web site" to "website", among other things.

normalfag spacing

>Empty my balls, Jhaj!

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I've never heard that before, and I never noticed people from the typewriter-era using double-spacing. But now that I'm googling a bunch of random legal documents and letters written with a typewriter, it looks like that is an actual old-fashioned trend. That's interesting.

How come when I read newspapers the text is sometimes randomly spaced apart for seemingly no reason at all?

It's justified.

Carlos!