If the period is the end of the sentence, why does the quotation mark that is part of the quotation inside the sentence come after the end of the sentence?
Please go back and close that parenthesis.
If the phrase inside the quotation marks isn't a sentence, why does it have a period inside the quotation marks to indicate the end of a sentence?
Just because we've been doing it incorrectly for hundreds of years doesn't mean we have to continue doing it incorrectly.
It has been told that Mark Twain, upon learning that an editor had changed a sentence because it ended with a preposition, wrote "This is the kind of thing up with which I will not put" in his reply.
I accept the "one space after the period at the end of the sentence" rule but hitting the space bar twice is so ingrained and automatic from my junior high typing class (which was required for all students) that I’m not sure I will ever be able to comply. Adherence to the “one space” rule for me generally requires three keystrokes, the automatic two spaces then a backspace, so it doesn’t save me any keystrokes, in practice it is quite the opposite and I’m too damn old to try to alter this habit.
I’m in the same boat. Hitting the space bar twice is so ingrained in me. Plus, it serves as a pause while I think what I’m going to say in the next sentence.
You are a f’ing traitor to your generation. (I don’t know what generation you are but I suspect not one that grew up with one space after the period.)
I totally get from where you are coming. Two spaces makes text much more readable and prevents confusion after an abbreviation. If we can be forced into that unnecessary change, we can make the logical one.