What can this do that emojis can't?
Actually blend with the text instead of sticking out like a sore thumb.
A collection of non-standard punctuation marks
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Re: A collection of non-standard punctuation marks
#82I occasionally use interrobang (?! - not sure if there is a unicode character), but the rest seem quite useless. Also, this site doesn't let you copy text...WTF developers?
The page somehow disables text selection. (Couldn't figure it out from briefly looking at the DOM inspector.) This behavior is rather annoying and unnecessary, as I was trying to quote some pieces of text to share.
CSS :
{ user-select: none; }
Re: A collection of non-standard punctuation marks
#83On a congruent note, California flops on compulsory English[1], the expressive void of the interwebs yawns at over a thousand emoji code points[2], and people actually think it's a great idea to champion patented punctuation marks[3] in everyday grammar. Can this guy[4] even spell his name yet? [1] https://outline.com/Gea52v [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji [3] https://www.google.com/patents/USD608820 [4] http…
Just to be clear, that patent is a Design Patent, 15 years. It’s the first time I have ever seen a Design Patent mentioned in the wild. So the only remaining item on my IP punch list is a plant patent. As much as I admire Luther Burbank, asexually reproduced plants didn't need their own category.
So there's nothing patented under 35 U.S.C. 161 (Plant Patents)?
https://www.uspto.gov/patents-getting-started/patent-basics/...
Re: A collection of non-standard punctuation marks
#84Some years ago I made the case for an interrocolon, the purpose of which I do not see addressed in that list: "when the direct object of an interrogative statement references an example, a URL or another statement in a follow-on block of text". I encounter uses for this all the time especially when texting.
Re: A collection of non-standard punctuation marks
#85Please don't show this page to Larry Wall.
Re: A collection of non-standard punctuation marks
#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just to be clear, that patent is a Design Patent, 15 years. It’s the first time I have ever seen a Design Patent mentioned in the wild. So the only remaining item on my IP punch list is a plant patent. As much as I admire Luther Burbank, asexually reproduced plants didn't need their own category.
So there's nothing patented under 35 U.S.C. 161 (Plant Patents)? https://www.uspto.gov/patents-getting-started/patent-basics/...
I think gp is looking for the patent to be mentioned elsewhere, not simply a patent as registered.
It's actually a version of bingo!
Re: A collection of non-standard punctuation marks
#87Goddamn I really thought it's screen clean time again...
They call that "concrete wall"? http://progressivepunctuation.com/assets/img/concrete-wall-h...
Re: A collection of non-standard punctuation marks
#88Don't diss the tried and true "multi-bang", seen in saccharine congratulatory messages the world around (e.g. "!!", "!!!", etc., on up to the elusive "octo-bang" of "!!!!!!!!").
Re: A collection of non-standard punctuation marks
#89Re: A collection of non-standard punctuation marks
#90I've seen these "non-standard" ones in practice: ?! - Shock and confusion "Apple did what?!" /s - Sarcasm "wow, I'm happy /s" (?) - Doubt "I think Mark said we was done (?)"
sort of related: it drives me crazy when people use a question mark to show doubt, (sometimes sarcastically), instead of to ask a question. i've never seen (?) before, but i see "i think mark said he was done?", a lot. even though it drives me crazy, it shows that special punctuation is unnecessary. people can just keep doing that awful thing, and there's no real ambiguity.
Many people raise the pitch of their voice as if asking a question when saying something doubtfully, so the question mark reads similarly to how one would say it out loud.
If you have access to formatting, a similar way of achieving the same thing would be to italicise "think"