Living Journey

Something light - One Space or Two???

Posted in Personal, Polls, humor, humour by livingjourney on June 28th, 2007

While my good friend from More Books and Things and another really nice blogger from Oleh Musings were getting into a very friendly and non offending creation vs evolution debate, (is there such a thing?) it was obvious however, that neither were going to change each others mind. (topic is closed now :) )

I had another life changing debate happening at my house. Truly earth shattering stuff — my jaw actually dropped and I am not joking — as I was horrified to learn that there were people out there who didn’t think like me. I was truly stunned!

The Scenario

The other night I was helping a friend with his resume. While he was typing I noticed that he only used on space afte a full stop! I have always used two. That was the way I was taught when I learnt how to touch-type on a manual typwriter.

This of course led to a huge debate in my home, with my hubby even ringing his brother who majored in History and English and is currently a teacher. His brother said that you only use one space!!! What? My hubby is with me on this one, I am a two spacer, he was told to use two spaces in the RAAF when writing documents. All the young ones in the house had never heard of the two space before! They were equally shocked that you could even consider two spaces.

What? Hah Hahahahah (insert self righteous laugh here) ….. They just have not been taught properly… the education system has gone to the dogs, I thought to myself! The guy doing the resume is currently at University and has never been corrected by his lecturer on his heretical irreverent one space.

Shock, horror.

Anyway, I have decided to put this to a poll … this life shattering debate.

Here it is.

One Space or Two?

I also have a new ‘Poll Section’ in the sidebar to the right. That will be updated as I think of more things that need popular opinion to win a debate. But remember, might is not always right!