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Re: English idioms for sorts of "brackets"
Posted: 06 Jul 2011, 00:56
by mattallen37
~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.
Re: English idioms for sorts of "brackets"
Posted: 06 Jul 2011, 01:08
by timpattinson
savedcoder wrote:
` I don't have a name for this. (I never use it.)
Backtick?
Re: English idioms for sorts of "brackets"
Posted: 06 Jul 2011, 01:26
by muntoo
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.
Re: English idioms for sorts of "brackets"
Posted: 06 Jul 2011, 02:36
by mattallen37
muntoo wrote:mattallen37 wrote:4 /\ y.
Translate that please.
For a y. Meaning, I only use ` when writing a "y" in leet.
Re: English idioms for sorts of "brackets"
Posted: 06 Jul 2011, 03:20
by muntoo
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."
Re: English idioms for sorts of "brackets"
Posted: 06 Jul 2011, 13:19
by m-goldberg
Muntoo, the cartoon you posted is great, but you really should have included an attribution.
Re: English idioms for sorts of "brackets"
Posted: 06 Jul 2011, 17:53
by muntoo
Just click the image, but I'll add some more anyways.
Re: English idioms for sorts of "brackets"
Posted: 06 Jul 2011, 19:20
by HaWe
just sort of back to topic (English lessons) - what means "I think he nailed it?" ;)
Re: English idioms for sorts of "brackets"
Posted: 06 Jul 2011, 21:15
by savedcoder
It means something like "I think he did it perfectly!"
*sigh* American English doesn't make much sense sometimes...
Re: English idioms for sorts of "brackets"
Posted: 06 Jul 2011, 21:29
by dimasterooo
cant't it also be "what he said was exactly right"?