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I work with French programmers, so that opens an entire other can of worms. Colon becomes "two points" and semi-colon becomes "point comma".
As a French speaker it make total sense to me; it just describes it. I just searched quickly how to explain that the semi-colon is somehow half a colon. I couldn't find anything.
So am I the only one who calls "-" a tack? As in chmod tack R
I first heard that on the Hak5 podcast, and assumed it was a Virginia think (Darren's from Virginia), but later he realized that no one else said it that way and it took a while for him to remember where he'd learned that. I think he got it from his friend "mubix" (Rob Fuller) who is a US Marine and apparently the Marines call it a "tack". Not sure if it's true or if mubix just invented that, but it's my best guess :…
e.g. "3-74-4-E" would be pronounced "three tac seventy-four tac four tac echo" (3rd deck, 74th frame aft of the bow, 2nd compartment outboard of the centerline on the port side, and it's an engineering space)
I've also avoided calling it a "dash" since I left the Navy, since dashes and hyphens are different characters in typography.
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Is the difference between ":" and ".." when pronounced obvious in French? In German, I'd say "Doppelpunkt" and probably "Punkt, Punkt," respectively.
It is pronounced almost exactly the same way (deux-points, point point) in french Canada. "Double-point" is valid according to Wikipedia, but I've never heard it before.
I'd like to add that it is wrong to think about commas, semi-colons, etc. in terms of duration of a pause in the speech. These signs articulate written sentences' syntax, and it sometimes relate to pauses when read aloud, but it is not a bijection. When analysing recordings, J. Drillon (Traité de la ponctuation française) showed that the correlation is really weak.
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Never heard that one before. "dash" or "minus" is all I've ever come across.
Minus always annoys me, because it's long and most times (e.g., chmod R )you're never actually minusing anything. * * Some Solaris commands use plus and minus to add and subtract things, but a) everyone hates Solaris commands b) this breaks with convention, hence a).
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There are also many different ways that people pronounce -> and =>, although it might vary depending on programming language.
How do you pronounce it? I usually say "arrow", or "dash-greater-than"... but come to think of it, I very rarely have to ever actually say this.
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It is pronounced almost exactly the same way (deux-points, point point) in french Canada. "Double-point" is valid according to Wikipedia, but I've never heard it before.
".." does not exist in French typography, we have the Points de suspension: "...", instead. I'd like to add that it is wrong to think about commas, semi-colons, etc. in terms of duration of a pause in the speech. These signs articulate written sentences' syntax, and it sometimes relate to pauses when read aloud, but it is not a bijection. When analysing recordings, J. Drillon (Traité de la ponctuation française) show…
!*''#
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%* ~#4
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|{,,SYSTEM HALTED
Waka waka bang splat tick tick hash,
Caret quote back-tick dollar dollar dash,
Bang splat equal at dollar under-score,
Percent splat waka waka tilde number four,
Ampersand bracket bracket dot dot slash,
Vertical-bar curly-bracket comma comma CRASH.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1181243
Openstache and closestache are two very good names for { and }, primarily because they are shorter.
Some people pronounce "?" as "Huh"? Might as well call it a "WTF mark".
Another source of confusion is the meaning of the word "brackets": +----+-----------------+-------------+ | | [] | () | +----+-----------------+-------------+ | US | brackets | parentheses | | UK | square brackets | brackets | +----+-----------------+-------------+
| Indiana | square brackets | parentheses |
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