David HoWhat is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders?
More than half the CO₂ emissions of the industrial age have been dumped into the atmosphere since 1990.
Thelmadonna@davidho Bleeding is stanched, not staunched; two spaces after a period is now passé—one is correct; editors accept manuscripts with with errors and typos all the time—it’s the quality of the writing that counts.
Sumocat 🐈⬛@thelmadonna I know one person who still uses two spaces after a period, and I found that out two weeks ago. That was shocking.
@Sumocat Here’s a deeper dive on the issue of spacing after a period: https://cmosshoptalk.com/2020/03/24/one-space-or-two/ Editors will not reject a manuscript based on whether or not the writer has conformed to house style, which pretty much always specs a single space after a period, but they may go ahead and just change it. 🤓
