There is no space before a punctuation mark!

[NaeRolls]

Why do some people do this?

Example: My name is NaeRolls and I am in my forties .

It looks like a speck on the screen and I want to wipe it off!

And while I'm being petty, why do people sign off emails with 'Kind Regards'? It's not a heading. It should be 'Kind regards'.

And not 'Warm regards' either, which puts me in mind of sitting in some kind of yucky, warm, wet substance.

Lastly: 'Expecially'. I have a friend who is an educated professional who says this. I want to tell her so that she stops embarrassing herself in front of others, but I think she'll be mortified and I don't want to offend her 😅

So

Training.
Cats.
Tadpoles.
Walking.

can all be sentences.

Muphrys law

I type something in an e-mail and send it to someone to put into a tiny publication. I was taught the two-space rule long ago when I had a few typing lessons. I have thought that my spaces had been interfered with, but maybe our modern machines are programmed to close that gap. I must check in my 'sent items'.

In fact this machine has just closed the twos to ones as soon as I pressed 'Post'.

Whatmightitdowithnospacesatall?

But I actually think that your OP could be improved. I had to read it twice to understand it properly. I would have put speech marks around 'My name is NaeRolls and I am in my forties .'

Also, I think 'the full stop looks like a speck on the screen and I want to wipe it off!' would have made things clearer.

I do agree with you on everything, though!

"Back in the day" when printers were a little clunkier and printed in characters, Wordstar would amend spacing to create a justified right margin.

This meant it would add a space where it saw fit.

I suspect some here can imagine the nervous breakdowns that caused.

@SerendipityJane , I remember full text justification. There often were rivers of white space.

@upinaballoon , MN uses some form of markdown (a bit like HTML) and it treats multiple white spaces as a single white space.

@upinaballoon , not on their own.

@SerendipityJane , if only.

One. And there has been one for about 30 years! Leaving two spaces is a hangover from old manual typewriter days.

I haven't really seen people put a space before a punctuation mark OP,but it could be worse,two of my colleagues who I share a live document with,don't use any spaces before OR after punctuation marks,usually commas,and seem to use commas endlessly,rather than actually starting a new sentence every so often,it drives me crazy because I just can't ignore it and have to stop and add spaces everywhere!

I like lots of commas as long as they are properly showing a pause is needed.

However, (because I can't start a sentence with the word 'but' because it's a joining word) many times I think posters will write three sentences and write them as if they're one sentence, with commas in between.

I wouldn't start a paragraph with However.

Is English your first language, @upinaballoon ?

Yis, mate.

Yes, and I was taught that I shouldn't start a sentence with 'but' or 'and'.

Why do you ask?

That would make me murderous.

@upinaballoon I was taught that it was grammatically incorrect to start a sentence with “However”

However, I ignored it!!

It clearly isn't incorrect in all cases, as there's nothing wrong with a sentence along the lines of, "However onerous the board members may deem this task, it is incumbent upon them to complete it to the best of their ability," or something along those lines.

However (!) in your example it's probably more "correct" (or at least more pedantic/punctilious) to rephrase it as, "I ignored it, however."