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[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Your wrong. I workout and practice language everyday.

How many mistakes are there in those 2 sentences?At least 3!

[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You're, work out?, practise, every day?

[–] YarHarSuperstar@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I have never seen someone use that spelling of practice in the USA.

[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I moght be wrong but is not practice a noun and practise a verb?

[–] YarHarSuperstar@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Well then I am wrong.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Maybe the two spaces after the period?

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

IDK what platform you are using, but the 2 spaces at the end of a line, are to make new line work in standard Internet browsers.

[–] egrets@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nothing to do with the browser, FYI, just the markdown interpreter - regardless of whether your client is a web app or otherwise.

As you say, two spaces before a carriage return indicates a line break in most flavors of markdown. Two carriage returns indicates a paragraph break.

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think they're referring to two spaces (as in spacebar) after the periods.

[–] egrets@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago
[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I see two spaces rendered on Jerboa, but only one space rendered on the Lemmy web app. I mean specifically after "wrong."

Weird.

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 week ago

I use two spaces because I've been typing for a long time, lol

Good eye! I still do it because, to my eyes, it makes it easier to indicate sentence boundaries while skimming the text.

Some people say this is "wrong", and I won't enforce it on anyone, but I do it when I'm writing my own text. Not only do I like how it looks, but it's a habit I've had for close to 30 years. It's not worth fighting that level of muscle memory, especially when we have Find/Replace All! Haha