@XK9,

I like the cut of jib. You enter a discussion by going on and on about how everyone who was taught to double space after a period is wrong and "ignorant." You repeatedly confuse an "agreed-upon standard" with a "fact." Then, after a few smug comments, you try to play yourself off as a "victim" of the stupidity of others, as someone who is "fighting the good fight."

"Right to be wrong[?]" What you meant to say is the right to continue to adhere to a "formerly agreed-upon standard." Saying that there is a "right" and a "wrong" here is tantamount to saying that when a Spanish speaker says, "hola'" he/she is wrong and should say, "hello." Every language needs agreed-upon standards, but these standards are not right or wrong and they are subject to change.

Actually, Cryptique, typographical standards change over time as you might notice if you read the comments above instead of calling those who remember a different standard lame. By the time children of the computer age are old, these standards will have changed again. Some of the more ahistorically-minded children of the computer age will spend their time arguing that the standard they grew up with is "right" and that the older and younger generations just don't get it. The kind of absolutist, blinkered thought you purvey is, as Peter Griffin would say, "shallow and pedantic."

Actually, Cryptique, language usage as a whole is determined by the users. Language wells up from below. It is not handed down from on high. To contend that there is a "right" or "wrong" when it comes to how many spaces are employed between sentences is to mistake "convention" for "truth." It's a usage standard, subject to change. For example, many people write "loose" when they mean "lose." If this continues and gathers steam, eventually this "incorrect" usage will become "correct." Dictionaries will reflect this change and then everyone can argue about whether this superfluous change signals dark days ahead for the English language.

I was taught to use two spaces but have since converted to using one space. Who cares? People who get their knickers in a twist about insignificant grammatical rules, like Bill Dawson above, are of the tiny-minded ilk. The worst is when one of these dome-headed monsters of intellect derail an entire conversation to announce their deep devotion to a concrete set of rules when the use of language is anything but a lapidary affair.

If any schoolmarms find grammatical errors in my comment, contact my editor at 1-800-YOU-SUCK.

I practice cubicle parkour at work everyday. Sure, I frighten and annoy my co-workers as I seamlessly vault, tuck, and roll through their personal space, but it's what allows me to retain my trim, girlish figure.

Che,

No one is buying the snake oil you're selling. Just stay down man, there's no shame in staying down.