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And it's parsable.

I think back to the one period after sentence move we've seen play out for a while now.

When two spaces are used, end of sentence is a parsable thing, easily differentiated from other uses, such as abbreviations.

Without them, assistive technology gets capitalization wrong all the time.

This kind of thing makes problem spaces way larger and more complicated than they need to be.



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