English idioms for sorts of "brackets"

mattallen37 · Post by **mattallen37** » 06 Jul 2011, 00:56

~savedcoder, that's exactly the same as for me. However, I also call - a hyphen.

I only ever use ` when typing in L3e7, B|_|7 7H3n 0|\|l`/ 4 /\ y.

timpattinson · Post by **timpattinson** » 06 Jul 2011, 01:08

savedcoder wrote: ` I don't have a name for this. (I never use it.)

Backtick?

muntoo · Post by **muntoo** » 06 Jul 2011, 01:26

mattallen37 wrote:4 /\ y.

Translate that please.

(Leet, but then only for a while?)

@tim Technically it's a grave accent, but backtick is what I call it.

mattallen37 · Post by **mattallen37** » 06 Jul 2011, 02:36

muntoo wrote:
mattallen37 wrote:4 /\ y.
Translate that please.

For a y. Meaning, I only use ` when writing a "y" in leet.

muntoo · Post by **muntoo** » 06 Jul 2011, 03:20

mattallen37 wrote:For a y. Meaning, I only use ` when writing a "y" in leet.

Ah! That's so meta.

From xkcd.com/917
Title text: "This is the reference implementation of the self-referential joke."

m-goldberg · Post by **m-goldberg** » 06 Jul 2011, 13:19

Muntoo, the cartoon you posted is great, but you really should have included an attribution.

muntoo · Post by **muntoo** » 06 Jul 2011, 17:53

Just click the image, but I'll add some more anyways.

HaWe · Post by **HaWe** » 06 Jul 2011, 19:20

just sort of back to topic (English lessons) - what means "I think he nailed it?" ;)

savedcoder · Post by **savedcoder** » 06 Jul 2011, 21:15

It means something like "I think he did it perfectly!"

*sigh* American English doesn't make much sense sometimes...

dimasterooo · Post by **dimasterooo** » 06 Jul 2011, 21:29

cant't it also be "what he said was exactly right"?

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