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Take it into Manhattan, you will be too busy swearing at it for not working that you won't notice stuff like that.

I assume you are talking more about the carrier's service? I unlocked my phone since AT&T are twats.

Standardized form was changed to single space because of txt and Twitter character limitations!

Actually, Gbaji is right and standard form was changed when word processors came into widespread use and could magically change the kearning of text on their own without the need for human intervention. I think the formal change was adopted sometime around 2000.

Edited, Oct 12th 2011 12:48pm by catwho

The origin of the double space and the reason it became a part of writing styles are largely different. The double space predates printing presses--Gothic writings quite often used large spaces to seperate sentences (and non-Roman European writings before then often didn't use periods or spaces at all).

But, ultimately, the only reason it had been included in modern styles is because it was conducive to the typewriter--not because there was a tradition of using it. French printers actually favored a single space between lines, for instance. But once the typewriter-based styles appeared, they began to start using double spaces.

If the discussion is on why we, as modern peoples, were taught to use the double space, referencing early printing presses isn't really relevant. We don't do it out of tradition, we were taught to do it because the writing system in practice when most of us learned to type was still considering typewriters and word processors as its standard. Or, even if it wasn't standard, our teachers had learned to double-space and had not yet been told to teach the new system.

I've heard it (ATT) can be very hit or miss. You either have 5 bars, or have a sketchy 1 bar. But to be fair, I'm just going from anecdotal evidence, I've never personally tried using an AT&T phone in Manhattan.