Shades of twelve years ago.
Actually, not health or medicine related detective work, but a totally off-topic
investigation into Larry's typing skills.
Larry sent me his drafts for this column as Word documents. Primitive word-processor
that I am, I responded by embedding comments, questions and suggestions for changes
in different colors. In turn, Larry used comments and changes tracking, certainly
legitimate solutions, though higher-tech than I find necessary.
But from the very first sentence I read, or more accurately, between the first
and the second sentence, I realized that when it comes to typing, both of us are
from the same generation. As I had, Larry learned to type in junior high school,
and thus he acquired the habit of placing two spaces after a period, a habit that
I grew out of years ago, even though over the years, and the use of many typewriters
before I started word-processing, it had become very ingrained in me.
I first acknowledged this phenomenon in these pages a full
twelve years ago, expressing even a bit of excitement in discovering, or in
being able to discover, that we were still in a transition period from typewriter
to the keyboard. Three years ago I found an opportunity
to return to this topic, questioning, apparently prematurely, whether it was still
possible to find examples of two spaces after a period, or whether it had totally
disappeared.
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