I would like to give a shout out to my sweet friend Christen (Mississippi for those familiar) for messing with my head before double digits this morning. Everyone who knows me at all knows that unless it is vital that we speak immediately, it can wait until after 10:00. Try as I might, I can't get the tiny human to understand that 6:30 is not an acceptable time to wake mommy up.
This morning, she asks me if I put one space or two at the end of my sentences. Two. NOPE, she says. Just like that. And you know what, she's not wrong. To be fair, I am not either because it seems that this is just like the color-of-the-dress drama where both sides are vehement and no one can agree. I am more distressed at the fact that I have missed this debate completely somehow. I am not up on a lot, but I usually am ahead of the game when it comes to spelling, grammar, and all things nerdy.
Immediately, I turned to my most trusted source, Google, to see what the rest of the world thinks about the great space debate. Oxford and Chicago say one is better. MLA says that as long as it's consistent, it is arbitrary whether you use one or two. All day, I have been trying to type with only one space but I can't seem to make my fingers match. Too many years of typing has my thumb in the habit of hitting the space bar twice at the conclusion of my sentences.
Am I the only one that learned to type this way? I'd love to hear what your thoughts are about it...really, I do want to know. Which I believe just goes to show how exciting my life really is these days.
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