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Join Date: May 2007
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Quote:
Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
Of course the monospace typewriter was the reason for two spaces. If your sentence ended with a skinny letter like I or J the next sentence was too close to be easily readable.
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That's very interesting to me...I never knew that but it makes perfect sense...I just always thought the two spaces was a punctuation rule. I definitely notice when that river of white is more pronounced than usual in a book.
I wonder if there are creative, funny or dastardly people out there making use of that phenomenon?
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