If you're posting a question please get to know this tricky little guy: ?
If you're posting a question please get to know this tricky little guy: ?
I've seen a number of posts lately like "How to get yadda yadda yadda" but when you click, the content is actually a question about the subject line, which sucks.
If you're posting a question, please make it look like a question. It's EASY... Just put a QUESTION MARK at the end of your subject line. It looks like this:
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We're pirates here, not fucking savages.
Keelhaul the offenders, oh Black Pharaoh¡
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow¡¿
Iä!
They prolly don't use turn signals either. Anarchists!
You just made me hate them.
That seems a bit unfair to anarchists.
If you're posting a question please get to know this tricky little guy: ?
I'm sorry, but I can't understand your question????
It's a fair cop.
One of my biggest pet peeves is when someone uses multiple question marks at the end of a statement. I'm triggered right now and reporting you for harassment. Lol
So it works as intended
The crawling chaos has spoken!
I'm glad someone enjoyed the reference. :)
So what did you think of the game .
Diabolical?
gasp
I can't believe you've done this.
I just lost The Game?
What did you think of the game:
Imagine how it must feel to be this tricky little guy: ,
Arrrr, I'm here t' make replicas o' all yer punctuation!
Avast, wher' be th' interrobang!?
Seriously though, while this post is cute, let's remember not everyone speaks English as a first language, and while many languages do use the English Alphabet, many do not and so there are still quite a few people unfamiliar with the proper English punctuation.
That's great and all, but for those of us that do speak English and are expecting certain grammatical norms, eschewing those norms, regardless of the validity of the reason, makes it significantly harder for us to parse.
The question mark is not a rare piece of punctuation, either. It's used in China. It's used in Japan. It's used in Vietnamese, every Romance language I've ever encountered, and every Germanic language I've ever encountered. I'm not saying I understand all those languages, but I can certainly recognize when someone's asking a question in one because the question mark remains the same.
This is a piss-poor excuse and reeks of the attitude of one who's never encountered a language that doesn't use the Latin Alphabet even in passing. Oh yeah, by the way, it's called the Latin Alphabet, not the English Alphabet.
Isn't that an argument for the existence of this post? Many don't know this, well, now they do.
I can forgive the incorrect "How to get blah?" sentence formation, but leaving out a question mark (which are common across many languages) makes it look like purposeful clickbait.
I cannot forgive that. English is not a language that allows you to turn a statement into a question just by changing punctuation. This is covered in like day one: "What is your name?"
If you learned English through media and not formal classes, you have even less excuse, because then you should be learning how people talk in the real world, not just formal classroom English.
My (non-english) native language uses the question mark, but many don't use it out of lazyness. I don't think this is a local issue. Also, are there really that many languages that do not use a question mark? I would have thought that is the rarity.
Besides, most english content I read on lemmy are not nearly that bad to justify that.
there are still quite a few people unfamiliar with the proper English punctuation.
The irony of this coming from an American. You guys are so clueless.
Is it here‽
You must be rich. 😏
interrobang
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writes banginterrogative symbol
Are there any languages that don't have punctuations?
I mean, most languages are not written.