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hawowanlawow posted:if they were anthropomorphized I would make them sit at the kids' table Then they would just be two commas
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I'm British, and nominally well educated, and if I was quoting a full sentence that ended one of my sentences there'd be full stops on either side of the quote marks, and I honestly don't know or care if this is correct.
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Aug 30, 2023 17:41
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Punctuation isn't real. The only standard is the one language cops want to hold you to but ACAB.
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zedprime posted:Punctuation isn't real. The only standard is the one language cops want to hold you to but ACAB. I know right where to put that bold motherfucker, row 4, 20th from the right
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Aug 30, 2023 18:42
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"they may peper and solt it as they plese" is such a wonderful phrase
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Aug 30, 2023 18:44
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My screwdriver has a lightbulb inside it.
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Aug 30, 2023 23:22
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Captain Splendid posted:My screwdriver has a lightbulb inside it. This is much better than your light bulb having a screwdriver in it.
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Aug 31, 2023 00:10
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Inceltown posted:This is much better than your light bulb having a screwdriver in it.
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Aug 31, 2023 00:42
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Inceltown posted:This is much better than your light bulb having a screwdriver in it. True, even if you're really into Screwdrivers, I imagine the broken glass is hazardous to drinking one like that
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Aug 31, 2023 00:55
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I always thought hummingbirds lived in a completely different place than I do, it's so cold during the winter (constant -30F) and we only ever see sparrows and robins and swallows around our place, maybe the occasional bluejay and cardinal. We planted a new type of red flower earlier this year with lots of little bell-shaped blossoms, and it turns out that they not only live here but they're pretty friendly. Friendly enough to scare the poo poo out of me while standing on my patio at 7 AM because I thought a huge rear end moth was swooping me. I didn't hurt it, just ducked outta the way and yelled like a coward, and now we're bros. I stand outside looking at all the cool animals, it goes nuts over the red flowers and occasionally zooms over to investigate my floral shirts. They also can tell when a big gust of wind is about to hit, because this little bird was just hovering around one of these flowers and suddenly landed in the soil with both wings spread out. I didn't know what it was doing at first, then a big gust rolled through and shook every branch on the nearby trees. It just waited until the gust was mostly through, went straight back up in the air and kept on trucking.
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Aug 31, 2023 00:57
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Purple trillium posted:The UK and US have opposite rules for a quotation that ends a sentence. US puts a full stop within the quotation marks and UK puts it after. I feel like everyone in the US does it the UK way anyway because it looks neater. I stopped correcting it when proofreading stuff ages ago.
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Aug 31, 2023 01:20
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I'm American and do it the UK way because the American way looks like poo poo.
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Aug 31, 2023 03:06
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"I'm American and do it the UK way because the American way looks like poo poo," said a complete dipshit. Why'd we even fight for independence?
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Aug 31, 2023 21:23
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Wasabi the J posted:"I'm American and do it the UK way because the American way looks like poo poo," said a complete dipshit. Because the USA only knows fight and be fat.
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Aug 31, 2023 21:25
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I'm pretty sure the British had a headstart in both fields. Sun never sets on your mommas rear end.
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Aug 31, 2023 21:27
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Inceltown posted:Because the USA only knows fight and be fat. I'm pretty sure they're good at eat hot chip and lie
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Aug 31, 2023 21:28
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We don’t call them chips, we still have standards
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Aug 31, 2023 21:42
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Eat hot fry and perjure
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Aug 31, 2023 21:47
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Phy posted:I'm pretty sure they're good at eat hot chip and lie You can't fool me, Hot Chip is music, not food
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Aug 31, 2023 21:51
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In the typewriter days, you could take a comma or period and put the quotation mark directly above it. Doing this with a single quotation mark over a period just got you an exclamation point though.
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Aug 31, 2023 22:04
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The interrobang is the superior punctuation mark Fight me.
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Sep 1, 2023 13:22
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Why would I fight you for speaking the truth 
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Sep 1, 2023 15:25
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Fight me‽
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Sep 1, 2023 15:48
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It is‽
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Sep 1, 2023 16:09
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Cable Guy posted:The interrobang is the superior punctuation mark the only people with strong opinions about the interrobang are literature nerds and graphic designers. If youve gotta copy-paste it off of Google then its not a real punctuation mark  that's why I just type alt-8253 
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Sep 1, 2023 16:32
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The interrobang blurs the distinction between ?! and !?, which (as any chess nerd can tell you) mean different things.
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Powered Descent posted:The interrobang blurs the distinction between ?! and !?, which (as any chess nerd can tell you) mean different things.
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Sep 1, 2023 19:26
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e double post
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Sep 1, 2023 19:44
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my reply to that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADcEI84wMX0&t=352s (5:52)
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Sep 1, 2023 19:45
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Why is this not an official smilie‽
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Sep 1, 2023 19:52
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Because no one's paid $30 to make it one yet‽ (Unrelatedly, in misremembering and typoing the Alt code for the interrobang, I discovered the ones for the playing card suits: ♣♠♦♥ Alt+8451-4)
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Captain Hygiene posted:Why is this not an official smilie‽ dont ask me im skint also i have no idea why it becomes a zombie in the one frame. i meant to have it be a happy smile so it goes   but image editors are garbage. i can send you the xcf tho if you wantalso the white interrobangs are yellow even though i explicitly chose white so thats another weird thing abougt using open source software when youre buzzed
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Ah, I'm too cheap anyway. The zombie thing is pretty funny, it looked intentional enough that I thought it was a joke on it being the horrifying version of the one.
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Captain Hygiene posted:Ah, I'm too cheap anyway. The zombie thing is pretty funny, it looked intentional enough that I thought it was a joke on it being the horrifying version of the it does look intentional but i swear i didnt do it, but thats why i decided to bother with the imgur rigmarole even tho my image editing skills failed lol
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I've spent years being annoyed at the keyboard on my Android phone because there are no left and right buttons to move the cursor and it's a pain in the rear end to try to tap the exact spot where I want it to go. I just accidentally discovered that I can move it by swiping left or right on the space bar.
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Komojo posted:I've spent years being annoyed at the keyboard on my Android phone because there are no left and right buttons to move the cursor and it's a pain in the rear end to try to tap the exact spot where I want it to go. I was mad at swiftkey for not having cursor arrows for a long time, until I looked in the menu and found out that they're an option  Now I have to turn the spacebar movement off just because it's so easy to trigger by accident when I don't need it any more.
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Sep 2, 2023 17:48
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I didn't realize Jimmy Buffet was still living in 2023.
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credburn posted:I didn't realize Jimmy Buffet was still living in 2023. I thought he wasted away years ago
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Interobangs are bad because its too similar too an exclamation or question mark in most fonts. It only exists because someone saw "?!" and didn't like that it broke the rules of grammar.
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