"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 > > Dr. Rick Froman, Chair > Division of Humanities and Social Sciences > Professor of Psychology > Box 3055 > John Brown University > 2000 W. University Siloam Springs, AR 72761 > [email protected] > (479)524-7295 > http://tinyurl.com/DrFroman > > > --- > To make changes to your subscription contact: > > Bill Southerly ([email protected]) > --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([email protected])
