Similar story to yours. The article seems to have a sort of humorous tone to it, but it was interesting to read it presented as a natural law, like this is information critical to the foundations of human communication.
Haha, ya. The Manual of Typography, with all-due-respect, isn't exactly revealing a critical flaw to how we self-organize and share information. I'm using two-spaces now. Can you still understand me? Are you perturbed by the extra space so much that I become incomprehensible?
FYI, the two spaces become one space in your comment due to HTML's "feature" of automatic concatenation of spaces in p tags. If you check the source of this page, you'll see that the spaces are actually there, and it's not Hubski's fault (as I had first assumed when I realized that spaces were concatenated on this site).
would preserve the space. <pre> </pre>
Oh that's interesting. I've never even noticed that. To be honest, I just don't care about the two-space or one-space thing. I'm cool with either.
Ya I suppose. It's kind of funny to read/hear people get so passionate for something so trivial.