Question: what does 120 80 character lines mean?
Answer: Jan 12, 2009 #5. When it says that the essay must be no longer than 120 eighty-character lines of text this means that the maximum is 120 lines with 80 characters in each line as AmyRemus. But an essay with 1" on each side margin has 100 characters with no spaces typically. The college is just telling you a maximum.