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| Thread ID: 115279 | 2011-01-11 02:11:00 | I must have missed something | tuiruru (12277) | PC World Chat |
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| 1168763 | 2011-01-11 04:12:00 | Can somebody please explain why, and/or when, the "recent" practice (will in forums like this anyway) of putting asterisks around words started It can also suggest your meaning of the word is different to its literal meaning. For example, your "recent" could imply recent is not really recent, but we will use the word anyway. Another example is this *may* work. In other words, it may work, but I would be surprised. This thread is *interesting*. :p |
Jen (38) | ||
| 1168764 | 2011-01-11 04:20:00 | It can also suggest your meaning of the word is different to its literal meaning. Here's an apocryphal anecdote (wow!) about a past Editor of the New York Times. This editor insisted his staff lend importance or emphasis to words in headlines, by using apostrophes. No amount of persuasive and learned argument would move the editor to relax the rule. Until one day his staff put a small article and photo on the front page with the headline 'NY Times Editor and his "Wife" dine out'. :lol: |
WalOne (4202) | ||
| 1168765 | 2011-01-11 07:11:00 | I was going to say "Thanks" after the first couple of posts but I'm glad I let it run now! :thanks | tuiruru (12277) | ||
| 1168766 | 2011-01-11 08:02:00 | Here's an apocryphal anecdote (wow!) about a past Editor of the New York Times. This editor insisted his staff lend importance or emphasis to words in headlines, by using apostrophes. No amount of persuasive and learned argument would move the editor to relax the rule. Until one day his staff put a small article and photo on the front page with the headline 'NY Times Editor and his "Wife" dine out'. :lol: Cute story, but those are "quote marks" not 'apostrophes'. I smell an *urban myth*........... Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 1168767 | 2011-01-11 08:28:00 | Indeed. You're doing it *wrong* |
--Wolf-- (128) | ||
| 1168768 | 2011-01-11 09:36:00 | ¯`*•.¸(¯`*•.¸,¸¸,*48;¤ºat least no one is doing the *super cool* trademe feedback squiggle anymore¤ø,¸¸,¸.•*´*75;.)¸.•*´¯ | icow (15313) | ||
| 1168769 | 2011-01-11 09:40:00 | Cute story, but those are "quote marks" not 'apostrophes'. I smell an *urban myth*........... Cheers Billy 8-{) Buggah. Trust you to pick that up. :lol: |
WalOne (4202) | ||
| 1168770 | 2011-01-11 10:50:00 | ¯`*•.¸(¯`*•.¸,¸¸,*48;¤ºat least no one is doing the *super cool* trademe feedback squiggle anymore¤ø,¸¸,¸.•*´*75;.)¸.•*´¯ Those bad-boys were pioneered long before trademe - They were popular on IRC-based file-sharing networks. A person would have a script that would update the channel - really just an "I'm still here" type of thing - and the predominant script for that was (and still is) OmenServ, which had the option of putting custom headers and footers in your update message. Thus, you would end up with something like: (¯`*•.¸.•`*•.¸ Copyright? ¸.•*`•.¸.•*`¯) Type: !nickname <filename> to download. So far today 15 files have been sent to 12 different people (¯`*•.¸.•`*•.¸ Sharing 24/7 ¸.•*`•.¸.•*`¯) |
ubergeek85 (131) | ||
| 1168771 | 2011-01-11 14:39:00 | ಠ_ಠ | Bozo (8540) | ||
| 1168772 | 2011-01-11 19:20:00 | You're doing it *wrong* No, you're doing it wrong. |
pcuser42 (130) | ||
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