“Anyone willing to pick a fight with me over an extra space between sentences must believe that that space matters, and at least on this point, I am loath to challenge that belief. For all the hand-wringing about our imminent decline into a text-messaging, “LOL” culture devoid of standards, I see evidence every day that people still care about getting the details of their writing right.”

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