PSA: using two spaces after periods is incorrect. Also, em dashes function as punctuation, en dashes are for date or number ranges, and hyphens are for hyphenating. They are not interchangeable!

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I think two spaces after a period is considered correct. Unless my English teacher lied and I don’t think Ms. Davis would do that.

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Incorrect.

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Pretty sure that K1 just called Ms. Davis a liar.......

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I’m going to use 3 spaces. Don’t tell me how to live my life.

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Two spaces after a period originated when typewriters were being used so that your eye could sense when one sentence ended and another started since the spacebar created the same amount of space no matter what.

On a modern computer, the program automatically makes a single space after a period sightly bigger negating the need to double space.

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Enough of this nonsense, what about the Oxford comma? Now that’s a sword to fall on

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The custom has certainly changed now that we no longer use typewriters, as K1 mentioned. Sorry oldies, time to stop with the double spaces

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PS Spaces after sentences were traditionally wider by between 20 and 50 percent, iirc. This predates typewriters. But it wasn't until typewriters that this ratio per force expanded to 2x. There was similar simultaneously a fashion in typesetting for very close leading and spacing which mandated single width spaces everywhere, so it's difficult to determine the exact technical causes of this aesthetic choice.

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Odd flex, but ok

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Oldies? I’m 29 and was taught to double space...

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You’ll have to pry my second space out of my cold, dead hands.

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So far M1 is in the lead. Adding a useless second sentence just to emphasize double space.

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Example: My Monday is actually going pretty well—LA isn’t a bad place to be staffed—but I needed to vent after getting a poorly-formatted slide with 10–15 of these all-too-common errors

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I've never heard of em vs. en dashes

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^ Correct.

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I set my editor to used spaces after sentences that are 1.41 times as wide as a word spaces, but otherwise OP is correct about dashes.

Unless someone is going to reference a commonly accepted style guide, all of this is for moot.

It is a lot easier to read with double spaces. No question!

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