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		driverdan on Oct 12, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why I Two-Space Did you even read the whole article? He directly addressed your first reason. The second reason is weak IMO. What if you forget a period? What if you forget a space between words? If you double space, forgetting it is a typo just like any other typo.

jonny_eh on Oct 12, 2012 [–]

If you capitalize the first word of each sentence it becomes rather obvious if you forget a period.

taybin on Oct 12, 2012 | [–]

Since proper nouns are also capitalized, it is ambiguous and you can't script around it.

jonny_eh on Oct 12, 2012 | | [–]

Then there's also context to fallback on, but that would require a human parser.

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