xkcd @lemmy.world schnurrito @discuss.tchncs.de 3 mo. ago

xkcd #2954: Bracket Symbols

xkcd.com Bracket Symbols

Alt text:

’"‘”’" means "I edited this text on both my phone and my laptop before sending it"

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((( )))

You're read something written by a right wing lunatic (Wiki )
- I knew there was a reason I didn't like Lisp.
  
  I know you're memeing, but if I know my Lisp, just wrapping something in triple parens implies evaluating it three times. So you have an expression evaluating to a producer that produces another producer that finally produces a value?
  
  I'm sure there's a legit use case for it. I just can't think of one.
- All banks are run by ([{them}])
  
  Who's them?
  
  The board of directors, duh
- ((( )))
  
  What bash, that's Lisp. Source is marked as bash. edit: seems like lemmy has a bug with quoted sourcecode? I'll leave it like this.
Feeling called out for having a favourite monospaced font.
No ``` Markdown quotation marks ```

No „down-up quotation marks“

And worst of all, no marks for the 「regular attack」, 『finishing move』and

﹃ 𝖑 𝖎 𝖒 𝖎 𝖙 𝖇 𝖗 𝖊 𝖆 𝖐 ﹄
- Not the ultimate LIMIT BREAF
  
  límít breah
No IPA notation? ⸨I'm somewhat disappointed⸩
- Can it only be used while drunk?
))<>(( Back and forth forever.
- I wish I could upvote this forever.
I don't get the "Someone British is talking" bit

We only use the singular ' to indicate speech within speech -

John said, "I was just speaking to Charlie, and he said 'It's not often XKCD gets things wrong', and I agreed".

I could be wrong but that's what I was taught
- The use of quotation marks, also called inverted commas, is very slightly complicated by the fact that there are two types: single quotes (` ') and double quotes (" "). As a general rule, British usage has in the past usually preferred single quotes for ordinary use, but double quotes are now increasingly common; American usage has always preferred double quotes.
  
  University of Sussex
  
  British English often uses single quotation marks to identify the outermost text of a primary quotation versus double quotation marks for inner, nested quotations.
  
  From wiki
  
  Huh, just shows you how I was taught the British way many years ago, but adopted the American way due to reading so many bloody books!
- Pull out your closest volume of Lord of the Rings and take a look. My copy at least has single-quotes for the speech text and double-quotes are used for nested speech. I guess it might be up to the publisher (eg: my copy of Harry Potter has been "Americanized" and thus uses double-quotes for the first level of speech text), but every copy of LotR i've run across uses single-quotes.
  
  I heard somewhere it was to save ink.
  
  Maybe they were pulling my leg.
( . )( . ) means titties
- 8008135
InconsolataDZ. Fuck.
- Fira Code with ligatures
- Hack (with Nerd Font patch)
- Mine is monospace
The python function is some sort of brainfuck?
- It's a list with a tuple, with a list with an empty dictionary. I'm not sure the innermost parenthesis is legal there.
  
  Edit: Well, I tested it. It's legal. {()} is just a set with an empty tuple instead of a dictionary.
  
  This sounds like something I would do with all of 40 hours or so of Python-esque programming under my belt. I feel like there has to be a better way, but it worked. I'm worried this might be the best way.
...I do have a favorite monospace font. Its Monaspace Krypton
- Oooh, I like it (Link for anyone else who's curious)
  
  People who have Opinions on monospace fonts may enjoy https://www.codingfont.com/
  
  Programmingfonts.org is another one if you just want to check some out.
<Hell yeah Animorphs>

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