"How am I ever going to get used to going back to typing two spaces at the
end of a sentence?"

Can't one just ignore the entire thing?
Perhaps if it is ignored it will go away.
Isn't there another way the APA can make money?

--Mike

On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Rick Froman <[email protected]> wrote:

> As always, with each new edition of the APA Publication Manual (web
> supplements at: http://www.apastyle.org/manual/supplement/index.aspx), I
> am learning new terminology in the ongoing battle to reduce bias in writing.
>  Do we have anyone on TIPS who would be willing to share their experience as
> a cisgendered person?  I will be the first to come out.
>
> While I applaud the attempt to stop using the term homophobia (which I
> think unnecessarily links a particular attitude or belief with a
> neo-analytic explanation for it), it appears that on both Google and Google
> Scholar, homophobia is still in much more common usage than the preferred
> terms: homonegativity or binegativity.  It seems we may have a long way to
> go on that front.
>
> One complaint I have: How am I ever going to get used to going back to
> typing two spaces at the end of a sentence?  I don't do that in e-mail or
> any other format (I don't imagine too many people will be including two
> spaces at the end of a sentence in a tweet given the character limit) since
> one of the recent revisions of APA style went from two spaces to one at the
> end of a sentence.  I guess I will have to set my Word grammar checker to
> remind me of that mistake.  I have started to make the change in this
> e-mail.  Don't those spaces between sentences look ridiculously large?
>
> Rick
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