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One space good, two spaces bad? (This story appears near the end of the article; scroll down to see it.)
Finally, Microsoft found time to weigh in on the age-old debate of just how many spaces belong after a full stop (or "period"). Thanks to an update, Word will apparently treat two spaces as a typo and festoon a double-spaced document with red, squiggly lines unless told to ignore the rule.
A debate for the ages finally settled. Where do you stand? ⚔️ https://twitter.com/tomwarren/status/1253655739379470338
— Microsoft 365 (@Microsoft365) April 24, 2020
Not everyone is impressed with change; this hack, for example, has fond memories of bashing away on the keys of a typewriter back in the day and slapping the spacebar twice between sentences [...]. It has proven a hard habit to break. Others, such as Jason Howard, senior project manager on the Windows Insider Team, called for a poll on the matter.
@Microsoft365 has thrown down the gauntlet. Apparently #MicrosoftWord will now flag double-spacing between sentences as an error.
Which side will you pick? Choose wisely...
— Jason Howard (@NorthFaceHiker) April 24, 2020
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday April 28 2020, @05:04PM (10 children)
I think by reflex. Not sure why. But I didn't even realize it. It didn't "look" wrong. In fact QWERTY is awkward to type, and looks strange.
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(Score: 2) by gtomorrow on Tuesday April 28 2020, @05:14PM (6 children)
DANNYB!!!
And this is after you were almost bragging what a typing whiz you are...?! Anybody can type 120 typos a minute. I can type 280 bits of nonsense a minute!
All your credibility has gone swiftly down the drain. 🤣
(Score: 4, Touché) by DannyB on Tuesday April 28 2020, @05:29PM (5 children)
I'm not bragging about being especially fast. But I do fairly rapidly type. And backspace sometimes. :-) But I've been doing it for decades. The typing teacher made sure nobody got started with any bad habits.
I am thinking about how I repeated that mistake twice and didn't catch it. I think Q is uncommonly used at the start of a word. And QU is a common digram.
I tried to think of a word starting with Q not followed by U. I couldn't think of any.
So I just had a peek at /usr/dict/words
Scrolling down to the Q's. It starts like . . .
pyrotechnic
pyrotechnics
pyrotechnics's
python
python's
pythons
pyx
pyx's
pyxes
q
qua
quack
quack's
quacked
quackery
And ends with . . .
quoted
quotes
quoth
quotidian
quotient
quotient's
quotients
quoting
r
rabbi
rabbi's
rabbinate
rabbinate's
rabbinical
rabbis
rabbit
rabbit's
rabbited
Other than the single letter Q, every word in /usr/dict/words, starting with Q is followed by U. So it must be reflex to type it. Which it was. I had no conscious awareness of it. Even though I knew what I intended to type.
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(Score: 2) by Nuke on Tuesday April 28 2020, @05:49PM (2 children)
Some Arab place names do, like Qatar, if you need something to practise on.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday April 28 2020, @06:23PM (1 child)
I have probably typed Qatar even less than any other word beginning with Q. And I noticed that my fingers slowed down compared to other words in these sentences.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 28 2020, @08:59PM
I managed to win at Scrabble once by claiming QWERTY was a word. With a little virtual arm twisting the other players accepted it (but pretty sure it's not in the Scrabble dictionary). It was on at least a double square, so lots of points!
(Score: 2) by gtomorrow on Tuesday April 28 2020, @06:49PM
DannyB, I love you! ❤️ Your wit and love for stupid puns are always welcome reads for me here.
But...just 'fess up already! You fucked up. Twice! It's QWERTY. It
should beis ingrained in our collective brain. You're just making it worse for yourself with yr who-cares list from...like I said, who cares?!Ehhh...I love you anyway! ❤️
(Score: 2) by Mykl on Tuesday April 28 2020, @10:49PM
For those who like to cheat at Scrabble, here are all of the words that use Q but not U [word.tips]
(Score: 3, Touché) by fido_dogstoyevsky on Wednesday April 29 2020, @12:02AM (2 children)
Can't see how, I very rarely mistype my passwords...
It's NOT a conspiracy... it's a plot.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday April 29 2020, @02:39PM (1 child)
I find that the more letters I have to type on the same hand, the slower it goes. Even as I rapid fire what you are reading right now, I notice that moving back and forth between hands seems to speed things up. But I'm not sure. But I notice that in this very test there are significant runs of letters on the same hand, alternating between hands. Just look at the word 'between' for example.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 29 2020, @02:52PM
Re-inventing Dvorak -- vowels on one side, common consonants on the other.