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Now there’s a ridiculous conspiracy theory I could get behind; shoe sizes aren’t real, it’s all a conspiracy by Big Foot to sell more shoes
Now there’s a ridiculous conspiracy theory I could get behind; shoe sizes aren’t real, it’s all a conspiracy by Big Foot to sell more shoes
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If you use Messages in iCloud, deleting a message or conversation on your Mac deletes it from all your devices where Messages in iCloud is on.
Technically that doesn’t say that deleting them from your phone will delete it from the backup on your Mac
Of course you’d be able to tell, he’d finally shut up
Not that most tech will actually work after you fill it with birdshot and let it fall from the sky, but hey, at least it’s fun
Translation layers aren’t porting
That’s not how it has historically went. When the protestors are armed, organized, and remain peaceful, the cops back off because cops are cowards
“Once you’ve been to Cambodia, you’ll never stop wanting to beat Henry Kissinger to death with your bare hands.” ~Anthony Bourdain
The second best quote about Kissinger
Well fuckin’ thanks; I knew the old preference was a typesetting or typographical thing, it’s nice to know there was a physical typesetting reason for the preference, rather than just how it looks
In the wiki article, I was looking at the line
These two styles are most commonly referred to as “American” and “British”, or sometimes “typesetters’ quotation” and “logical quotation”
The former I know as ‘traditional quoting’, and the latter as ‘logical’. My terminology would be mostly coming from the Jargon File though, which is admittedly outdated; I believe it was last updated in 2003
Like I said, Britain has been moving towards logical quoting; their having the same (which wiki apparently calls ‘typesetting’) quoting style is mostly historical.
I’m not sure on those specifically, but I wouldn’t be surprised.
The pressure in favour of logical quoting mostly stems (lol) from STEM, and particularly programming, where an errant period can be a serious problem. The pressure for traditional quoting mostly stems (not surprisingly) from older typsetters and established non-technical publications
I didn’t name it, but the name is more correctly descriptive than the other name that is used for the style, which is simply ‘new quoting’.
Logical quoting has been slowly becoming more common since the advent of modern computing, which makes sense because there is significant difference between say 'dd'.
and 'dd.'
.
By some style guides, if you are ending your sentence with a quote but the quote is not the end of a sentence, your end-of-sentence period goes inside the quotation marks even though it is not part of the quote.
Generally this style is called ‘traditional quotation’, while the verbatim style is called ‘new’ or ‘logical’ quotation. Traditional quotation was preferred for typesetting or prettiness reasons, but is going out of vogue because it is illogical.
It was at one point prescribed by most English style guides, be they American or British, but British style guides have been moving towards logical quoting
Well yeah. When we play Scrabble, the house rule is ‘English Wiktionary’
There is an official Scrabble dictionary
I know, I was just poking fun :P
Seems you understand what needs to be done