{"id":2672,"date":"2017-05-23T23:43:43","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T03:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/?p=2672"},"modified":"2017-05-23T23:43:43","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T03:43:43","slug":"the-drs-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/archives\/2672","title":{"rendered":"The Dr&#8217;s back!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good evening my friends. \u00a0It&#8217;s been awhile. \u00a0I could go into this long dissertation as to why I wasn&#8217;t writing; but why. \u00a0When I told my cat the story, he just kind of looked at me like: does it look like I care? \u00a0So I&#8217;m going to assume you don&#8217;t either, nor should you. \u00a0The bottom line is I neglected my writing duties. \u00a0I&#8217;ll have the boss lady flog me with a wet noodle.<\/p>\n<p>The first 100 days of our new president&#8217;s presidency has been&#8230;.entertaining. \u00a0Whether you are on the right or left &#8211; Mr. Trump is OUR president; and he deserves the recognition and respect that the office demands. \u00a0For my fellow Americans on the left &#8211; get over it. \u00a0We are all in this together, stop you&#8217;re whining and move forward for the betterment of the country. \u00a0For my fellow Americans on the right &#8211; Trump is not all that and a bag of chips. \u00a0He has baggage, a <em><strong>lot<\/strong><\/em> of baggage. \u00a0I\u00a0started writing what, in my opinion, his pros and cons were. \u00a0I deleted that after I wrote it because&#8230;I didn&#8217;t want the blowback from some of my&#8230;.more intense&#8230;. readers.<\/p>\n<p>So, in the spirit of unification, I would like to discuss <em>something of importance<\/em> to all of us in this great land.<\/p>\n<p>I learned to type on a typewriter (yes kids&#8230;a typewriter). \u00a0We had it beaten into us that there were TWO spaces after a sentence ends. \u00a0I have been trying to shift to just one, and you may see in my writing that I bounce back and forth, I&#8217;m still a work in progress. Sara Boboltz wrote an entertaining, and enlightening article for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2015\/05\/29\/two-spaces-after-period-debate_n_7455660.html\">Huffington Post<\/a>. \u00a0She writes an entertaining journey of indecision. \u00a0She cited a poll (however unscientific) of 23 middle school and high school teachers their preference. \u00a0What is interesting is that there was indecision there too&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>9 said two were best. \u00a0Their reasoning was it makes essays easier to read or that is the way they were taught. \u00a0One of them stated the extra space could be helpful for kids that had trouble reading.<\/li>\n<li>5 said one was best. \u00a0Their primary reasoning, two spaces looks dated.<\/li>\n<li>8 were neutral.<\/li>\n<li>1 required both styles. \u00a0One space for school newspaper articles, and two for essays.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>No wonder there is so much disagreement! \u00a0Our teachers cannot even decide (Hey congress&#8230;there&#8217;s something you could regulate) how many spaces there should be. \u00a0Does it really matter? \u00a0Not to me. \u00a0I&#8217;ll put in one or two depending upon my mood. \u00a0I&#8217;m trying to get to just one, but my fingers just don&#8217;t cooperate. \u00a0There has to be some guidance right? \u00a0So what do the big three writing style guides have to say about it?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/style.mla.org\/2016\/07\/27\/number-of-spaces-after-period\/\">MLA<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;Leave one space after a period or other concluding punctuation mark, unless your instructor prefers two spaces. Whichever spacing you choose, be sure to use it consistently throughout your paper.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apastyle.org\/manual\/whats-new.aspx\">APA<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;Punctuation\u2014return to two spaces after the period at the end of the sentence recommended for ease of reading comprehension.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagomanualofstyle.org\/qanda\/data\/faq\/topics\/OneSpaceorTwo.html\">Chicago Manual of Style<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;<i>CMOS<\/i> follows the industry standard of one space after a period.&#8221;\n<ul>\n<li>A fun <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heracliteanriver.com\/?p=376\">article regarding spaces<\/a>\u00a0and the Chicago Manual of Style.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As you can see, even the big three disagree. \u00a0This is a topic of vast debate. \u00a0The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quickanddirtytips.com\/education\/grammar\/two-spaces-after-a-period\">Grammer Girl<\/a>\u00a0uses HTML coding as an example of one space, a pretty interesting read. \u00a0Brian Klems, in his Blog &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.writersdigest.com\/online-editor\/how-many-spaces-after-a-period\">The Writer&#8217;s Dig<\/a>&#8221; makes the case for the industry standard. \u00a0He also suggests a quick tip:\u00a0<em>Simply write as you always would (with two spaces) and, when you are finished, got to the toolbar of your word processing program, click EDIT &gt; FIND &gt; REPLACE and then choose to replace all double spaces with single spaces.<\/em> \u00a0You&#8217;re a wise man Mr. Klems. \u00a0I just may have to take advantage of this tip!<\/p>\n<p>Be safe out there, this world is getting nuts, is there something in the water?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good evening my friends. \u00a0It&#8217;s been awhile. \u00a0I could go into this long dissertation as to why I wasn&#8217;t writing; but why. \u00a0When I told my cat the story, he just kind of looked at me like: does it look &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/archives\/2672\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,48],"tags":[50,66,56,116],"class_list":["post-2672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-recommendations","tag-america","tag-leadership","tag-stupid","tag-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15061,"url":"https:\/\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/archives\/15061","url_meta":{"origin":2672,"position":0},"title":"In-Decision 2024 \u2013 Presidential Election 2024","author":"DR D","date":"October 17, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Today, my cat was telling me to start writing again.\u00a0 So, to shut him up; I\u2019m stealing the name of a segment from the \u201cDaily Show,\u201d as I\u2019m sure you\u2019re aware, it sums up this year\u2019s election cycle quite nicely. 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