Lorem Ipsum Dol— oh SHUT UP.
Hey look, the internet is fighting about typography! Something about double spaces after periods this time? Again? And we all know what happens when the internet fights about typography, right? Typography nerds write these really passionate blog posts in which they all show off their exhaustive knowledge of the printing press and then work in some nitpicky rants about “kerning” or some shit before winding up with a few “informed” subjective aesthetic considerations about “flow.” And feelings!
But all these nerds are missing the point because, you know, this is the internet! And most of the copy around here gets entered into these newfangled rich text interfaces that let you easily format text without worrying about things like <em>s and <strong>s and looking like a tool when you forgot the </strong> and all your shit just ends up looking like this for the rest of the post, and, anyway, moral of the story, the majority of these editors are powered by the TinyMCE® Javascript WYSIWYG™ Editor© which formats ” ” as ” ” but replaces ” ” with “ ” and browsers are stupid so if you run around littering your long-winded heartfelt essay about how this one passage from Milan Kundera’s Book of Laughter and Forgetting totally informs your recent break-up you’re going to end up with a few sentences here and there ending at natural line breaks and carrying a few itinerant s over to the next line meaning that
you’ll end up with sentences jutting out from the left
that make you look like a complete hack, not only because they’re
atrocious but because they’re not left justified
or right justified but totally unjustified. And unjustifiable!
