"Ampersand" is apparently a corruption of "and per se and" which was the (now extinct) last line of the Alphabet Song a hundred years ago. Anybody can corroborate?
ASCII Pronunciation Rules for Programmers [2008]
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Re: ASCII Pronunciation Rules for Programmers [2008]
#82I have trouble believing that "apostrophe" is more common among programmers than "single quote"...
Re: ASCII Pronunciation Rules for Programmers [2008]
#83"Ampersand" is apparently a corruption of "and per se and" which was the (now extinct) last line of the Alphabet Song a hundred years ago. Anybody can corroborate?
Re: ASCII Pronunciation Rules for Programmers [2008]
#84It annoys me when people on TV use "forward slash" when reading out URLs. Makes we want to tell people that URLs never use backward-slashes!
Never?
Re: ASCII Pronunciation Rules for Programmers [2008]
#85I work with French programmers, so that opens an entire other can of worms. Colon becomes "two points" and semi-colon becomes "point comma".
Yeah, German calls them "Doppelpunkt" (double point or double period) and "Strichpunkt" (and "Strich" is normally a dash, so dash-point or dash-period, depending on how you want to translate "Punkt").
Perhaps double-full-stop and stroke-full-stop. Those sound kinda British to me.
Re: ASCII Pronunciation Rules for Programmers [2008]
#86Re: ASCII Pronunciation Rules for Programmers [2008]
#87Another source of confusion is the meaning of the word "brackets": +----+-----------------+-------------+ | | [] | () | +----+-----------------+-------------+ | US | brackets | parentheses | | UK | square brackets | brackets | +----+-----------------+-------------+
| AU | square brackets | parentheses | +----+-----------------+-------------+ :(
| CA | [[any of the above]] | [[any of the above]] |
+----+----------------------+----------------------+
Re: ASCII Pronunciation Rules for Programmers [2008]
#88It annoys me when people on TV use "forward slash" when reading out URLs. Makes we want to tell people that URLs never use backward-slashes!
Never?
RFC 1738
Other characters are unsafe because gateways and other transport agents are known to sometimes modify such characters. These characters are "{", "}", "|", "\", "^", "~", "[", "]", and "`".
All unsafe characters must always be encoded within a URL.
Re: ASCII Pronunciation Rules for Programmers [2008]
#89In a standard italian keyboard layout the '\' is placed between TAB and ESC, and '/' is shift+7.
A lot of people think that '\' is the slash and '/' the backslash leading to some confusion among non-programmers (and some escaped characters here and there.)