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Although now people will realize three-per-em space that all this time I’ve been using weird medium mathematical space whitespace characters in my hair space hair space hair space speech dot dot dot…
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Source: xkcd.com/3143/
Gonna start to call out the indentations and brackets for my inner dialogue.
When people say “question mark” out loud
I don’t have a question, and don’t call me Mark!
I don’t recall ever hearing someone do that. Is this a thing people do?
I’ve done it on rare occasions to emphasize the uncertainty of a claim.
I use it as a way to say I’m pretty sure the thing I said is true but I have doubt.
" the glasses are only cosmetic, question mark"
Also turns out I’m pretty sure the devs patched the glasses,and they now negatively effect aim.
I think it's mostly people like me who use voice to text. You have to tell it the punctuation verbally.
Thought it was gonna be about when phone dictation bleeds into the real world.
Does no one remember Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters??
With Bruce Campbell as Chicken Bittle, the fourth Aqua Teen? How could I forget!
Wow I had never heard of this!
Anyone else reminded of Victor Borge?
This and inflationary language are two of my favorites from him!
My favorite thing about this is the explainxkcd page keeps it going by also spelling out all punctuation
Damn, a relavent xkcd to me IRL because I just did this today
Charlie’s Angels’ Colon must have been a direct to TV sequel
Can you fully throttle a colon on television though?
Is this because valley girl raises the time at the end the sentence?
squaresinger@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Tbh, I hate in much more when people say “quote unquote” before starting their quote.
It’s like writing ""Here is the quoted text.
Unquote ends the quote. So “quote unquote” means ""Here’s an empty quote, now let me ramble on about something that is not a quote.