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Is 2 spaces after a period the standard for legal writing?
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Date: August 21st, 2005 6:39 PM Author: dashing sinister space (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3647324) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 6:40 PM Author: saffron adventurous reading party I thought it was the standard for everythign? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3647329) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 6:41 PM Author: dashing sinister space Apparently, it isn't. In fact, I see one space most places. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3647345) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 6:44 PM Author: saffron adventurous reading party I always use two because that's what we were taught in typing class. One space after comma, two after period. I assumed it was like this for all types of formal writing. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3647372) |
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Date: August 22nd, 2005 5:18 AM Author: Provocative up-to-no-good stage This is what I thought. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3650913) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 6:40 PM Author: pearl autistic station rigpig Depends on the professor/partner. I always use 2, unless told otherwise. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3647333) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 6:41 PM Author: dashing sinister space Everywhere? Or just for legal writing? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3647346) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 10:14 PM Author: Sepia stage coldplay fan Yes. Formal papers (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3648729) |
Date: August 21st, 2005 6:42 PM Author: Sexy indigo messiness I'm sorry. Are you using a TYPEWRITER? Didn't think so. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3647353) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 6:51 PM Author: electric ceo theater It seems like the correct way should either be two spaces or either one or two spaces, but not one space. Too many people have two spaces ingrained. |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 9:13 PM Author: Scarlet razzmatazz kitty cat wtf are you talking about? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3648277) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 9:17 PM Author: chestnut big internal respiration senate my head just exploded. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3648301) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 6:53 PM Author: razzle-dazzle main people Is there a BLUEBOOK or ALWD rule on this? Anyone know? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3647420) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 7:10 PM Author: cream beady-eyed meetinghouse international law enforcement agency No bluebook or ALWD as far as I know. also never seen court rules that say one or two. two is fine for everything, including legal writing. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3647488) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 9:54 PM Author: wonderful lay headpube Most legal writing classes encourage using a style manual along with the Bluebook. As far as I know, all the style manuals say two spaces after a period. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3648570) |
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Date: August 22nd, 2005 7:53 AM Author: Mischievous mewling ladyboy This is wrong. The most commonly used style manual in legal writing is the Chicago Manual. While it doesn't have a rule one way or the other, the CMOS uses one space after a period, which suggests that you should too. Oh, and the Bluebook does too. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3650973) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 7:53 PM Author: slippery tanning salon affirmative action 1 is, per the BB and the CMS. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3647746) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 7:54 PM Author: dashing sinister space Where in the BB? I assume BB = Bluebook. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3647756) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 7:57 PM Author: slippery tanning salon affirmative action Yea. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3647771) |
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Date: August 22nd, 2005 7:54 AM Author: Mischievous mewling ladyboy On EVERY PAGE of the BB.
Seriously. Open it. Look for a period. See how many spaces are after the period. There's your answer. |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 8:21 PM Author: Marvelous aggressive police squad hospital Why would you use two spaces? Every word processing program from the last 20 years has intelligent spacing built-in. Hit the spacebar one, unless you're using a typewriter or you've been asked specifically to make the document look like strange. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3647925) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 8:23 PM Author: aqua diverse market pistol 2 spaces is not unheard of. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3647934) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 8:25 PM Author: Marvelous aggressive police squad hospital I've seen people use it and it always looks terrible. It's a holdover from the typewriter days -- some people don't realize it's not necessary on computer word processors. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3647944) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 8:25 PM Author: saffron adventurous reading party Okay, in my job, at a big NYC bank, when we wrote up contracts for our clients, I KNOW we used 2 spaces.
I didn't know people didn't use 2 spaces. As I said above, this is what we were specifically taught in typing class (on a computer, not a typewriter). |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 9:12 PM Author: electric ceo theater I'm sure there are times where a period doesn't indicate the end of a sentence and two spaces would get rid of that ambiguity. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3648267) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 9:17 PM Author: slate set kill youself for asking this. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3648294) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 9:23 PM Author: dashing sinister space I decline to. But if I were you, I would definitely off myself. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3648349) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 9:27 PM Author: doobsian sanctuary Word gives you a little green squiggle if you don't use two spaces. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3648383) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 9:39 PM Author: Burgundy Puppy No, it only does that if you have it set to require two spaces. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3648450) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 9:40 PM Author: saffron adventurous reading party I didn't set my Word that way, and it requires two spaces. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3648458) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 9:41 PM Author: Burgundy Puppy It may not come standard, but you can set it to require one space and it will give you a green squiggle if there are two. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3648471) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 9:41 PM Author: doobsian sanctuary Its the default. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3648470) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 9:43 PM Author: Burgundy Puppy Yeah, but that doesn't mean it's mandatory. If you fiddle with the settings, it asks specifically if you want one space or two. I have it set for one. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3648486) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 9:47 PM Author: cordovan locus masturbator Your comment made me laugh. That would be funny if MSWord mandated things like this. "If you want to use our program you must always use two spaces after a period and you must never begin a sentence with but or because." (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3648521) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 9:49 PM Author: Burgundy Puppy Yeah, but I took the original post on this subject to be an argument for two spaces after periods. I'm just saying that you can easily set the program to do something else, so it proves nothing. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3648534) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 9:51 PM Author: cordovan locus masturbator No, no, I didn't mean you did anything wrong. I agreed with your post. I just thought it raised a very funny point and I thought maybe you had done it on purpose. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3648543) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 9:53 PM Author: Burgundy Puppy Okay, I misinterpreted your post. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3648562) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 9:53 PM Author: cordovan locus masturbator Why are you shivering? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3648564) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 9:55 PM Author: wonderful lay headpube It's set that way be default. Indeed, it only *doesn't* do that if you change the settings. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3648578) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 9:41 PM Author: cordovan locus masturbator That is a holdover from when people first switched to word processing software. People were too confused by the apparently sudden need to only space once. You can fix it in your spelling & grammar options, the same place you can choose whether to have a comma before the and in a list (i.e. a bat, a ball, and a glove). I found out about this earlier in the summer and after researching it online, one space appears to be the rule for all normal documents unless, of course, you are actually typing them on a typewriter. As for the contracts at the NYC bank, contracts are sometimes different from normal documents. On the other hand, there is an element of preference. Some people always use full-justified and some people always use left-justified, which is correct? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3648474) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 9:42 PM Author: galvanic school Two spaces after the period has always been standard and is standard for legal writing. HOWEVER, all word processing programs make the space slightly larger after a period, which was intended to eliminate the need to add an extra space. HOWEVER, people were so used to adding two spaces that the practice is still common, which has made the "correct" way to do it impossible to determine. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3648477) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 9:43 PM Author: cordovan locus masturbator agreed. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3648482) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 9:42 PM Author: Out-of-control Faggot Firefighter I'm used to it, so I still do it. If I had to, it'd be a lot easier to turn all the double spaces into single ones than the other way around. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3648479) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 10:10 PM Author: Marvelous aggressive police squad hospital I'm surprised so many people seem to adhere to this outdated convention, yet nobody ever uses two spaces on here. If there really was a "right" way to it or a difference in legibility, why wouldn't people use two spaces in everything they wrote? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3648685) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 11:44 PM Author: Out-of-control Faggot Firefighter Um, HTML displays multiple spaces as just one space. In fact I just used two spaces after that last period. You can see this if you view the source HTML for this page. I'm also not the only person who did this. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3649461) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 11:45 PM Author: orange plaza it's not possible to use 2 spaces on here, so you wouldn't notice even if people were typing them. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3649466) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 9:47 PM Author: spectacular sienna toaster Classic thread on this topic:
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Date: August 21st, 2005 10:12 PM Author: razzle-dazzle main people What the fuck so there is no standard? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3648708) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 10:13 PM Author: chestnut big internal respiration senate nope. Old school texts even have like 5 spaces sometimes. Its weird. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3648719) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 10:14 PM Author: cordovan locus masturbator My menu at Ruth's Chris had at least four spaces between sentences. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3648722) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 10:15 PM Author: razzle-dazzle main people Do the 2 spaces in between my two front teeth count? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3648737) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 10:15 PM Author: chestnut big internal respiration senate I have this old version of Don Quixote from like the 40's. Sometimes there will be like 6 spaces inbetween sentences. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3648745) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 10:17 PM Author: Sepia stage coldplay fan Does any one use the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (5th/6th edition)? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3648762) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 10:18 PM Author: razzle-dazzle main people Not I. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3648770) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 11:41 PM Author: Dull stirring twinkling uncleanness resort Apparently, neither do you use a grammar book. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3649424) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 11:42 PM Author: Unhinged State Apparently, you do not use grammar books either.
tootles. |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 11:43 PM Author: Dull stirring twinkling uncleanness resort That's true; I don't.
But my sentence looks all right to me. |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 11:47 PM Author: Unhinged State Your sentence was worse than his. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3649487) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 11:51 PM Author: Dull stirring twinkling uncleanness resort My sentence looks all right to me. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3649521) |
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Date: August 22nd, 2005 12:00 AM Author: Unhinged State Keep telling yourself that until you believe it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3649578) |
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Date: August 22nd, 2005 12:03 AM Author: Dull stirring twinkling uncleanness resort I believe it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3649597) |
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Date: August 22nd, 2005 12:16 AM Author: Vengeful Topaz Casino Liquid Oxygen I read in some prominent place (perhaps the Chicago Manual of Style) that one space is appropriate. Two spaces harken back to the days of typewriters. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3649676) |
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Date: August 22nd, 2005 12:17 AM Author: Dull stirring twinkling uncleanness resort It's pretty clear that most print and electronic media use at most one full space. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3649680) |
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Date: August 22nd, 2005 6:47 AM Author: Elite aphrodisiac people who are hurt electric furnace The Michigan Law Review only uses one space. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3650955) |
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Date: August 22nd, 2005 7:55 AM Author: Mischievous mewling ladyboy Almost all good law reviews use only one space. This is because almost all professional publications and presses use only one space. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3650975) |
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Date: August 22nd, 2005 8:04 AM Author: amber cumskin I thought you clerked in CA. It's 5AM there. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3650979) |
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Date: August 22nd, 2005 8:23 AM Author: Swashbuckling Fear-inspiring Pit Subject: wow, it's been hammered into my head for at least 10 years for two spaces. i've gone back into documents and added spaces to mine and even others while editing. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3650984) |