Comments on: Verizon Wireless has something to say about that McCain cellphone tower story

By: thebonafortuna

thebonafortuna — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 03:06:13 +0000

I’m 24, and its always how I was taught to type as well… Maybe regional?

By: JNels

JNels — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 17:00:57 +0000

Guilty. Jeffrey Nelson here, the Verizon spokesguy. My typing, my double space after a period-ing.
JNels

By: Nicholas Deleon

Nicholas Deleon — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 12:33:50 +0000

Maybe it’s a generational thing? I’m 22 and was never taught the double space thing. I mean, I knew it existed, sure, but never actually had to do it. Youngsters–how do they teach it nowadays?

Let’s get to the bottom of this.

By: Lydon

Lydon — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 06:36:24 +0000

Hmmm… I always thought double spacing after every sentence was the only correct way to type. I actually tried to write this with single spaces after the period and my head almost exploded. I think I learned it back in high school from Mavis Beacon.

By: jim pict

jim pict — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 23:15:07 +0000

from the MLA site (http://www.mla.org/style_faq3):
How many spaces should I leave after a period or other concluding mark of punctuation?
Publications in the United States today usually have the same spacing after a punctuation mark as between words on the same line. Since word processors make available the same fonts used by typesetters for printed works, many writers, influenced by the look of typeset publications, now leave only one space after a concluding punctuation mark. In addition, most publishers’ guidelines for preparing a manuscript on disk ask authors to type only the spaces that are to appear in print.

Because it is increasingly common for papers and manuscripts to be prepared with a single space after all punctuation marks, this spacing is shown in the examples in the MLA Handbook and the MLA Style Manual. As a practical matter, however, there is nothing wrong with using two spaces after concluding punctuation marks unless an instructor or editor requests that you do otherwise.

By: Kristy

Kristy — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 22:58:05 +0000

“I doubt the Post was all, “Let’s make something up!””

You don’t know the media very well. Please visit newsbusters.org.

By: thebonafortuna

thebonafortuna — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 21:40:38 +0000

I never noticed this, but it looks like the site adjusts the spaces on its own. Maybe more people do this than I thought?

By: thebonafortuna

thebonafortuna — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 21:36:32 +0000

I also believe Verizon. And I have always done the double space at the end of each sentence. Just the way some people were taught to write I guess.

By: Nate

Nate — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 21:05:39 +0000

I believe Verizon. They have nothing to gain by lying.

Journalists on the other hand…

By: weatherman

weatherman — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 21:02:57 +0000

If the Secret Service made the request, then it’s completely legitimate in my mind. We can’t have another Camp David incident (you know the one I’m talking about, where Leo McGarry collapsed). That was a real national tragedy. And even more important if you think about that happening to McCain and what the consequences would be vis a vis the vee pee.

…wait, that wasn’t real life? I think I was living in a West Wing Alternate Reality there for a few years.