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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: https://xkcd.com/3143/
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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.
That’s the point though, quote to tell people it’s a quote and unquote to signal that you are using it out of context or sarcastically, thus not quoting the original sentiment. It’s correct.
Gonna start to call out the indentations and brackets for my inner dialogue.
When people say “question mark” out loud
Oh I can shad a light on that! Hope it’s not en pair with the shelter animal hunting though.
When we’re in a fast paces dialogue with a high level of rapport I start speaking my thoughts before they’re finished - and it happens that a thought starts out as “my opinion is …” And in the middle transfers to “oh it would be way more interesting what your thoughts on this are!”. Or I’m mentally distracted and fall back to the monologue voice …
Either way: the flow of the sentence already started as a statement and now I want to make sure that it’s clear that your input is wanted and appreciated - and instead of saying “and perhaps that sounded like a statement but please treat it as a question” I fall back to “question mark.”
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?
Copy/paste instead of linking because Lemmy doesn’t like me>
I can shad a light on that! […]
When we’re in a fast paces dialogue with a high level of rapport I start speaking my thoughts before they’re finished - and it happens that a thought starts out as “my opinion is …” And in the middle transfers to “oh it would be way more interesting what your thoughts on this are!”.
Or I’m mentally distracted and fall back to the monologue voice …
Either way: the flow of the sentence already started as a statement and now I want to make sure that it’s clear that your input is wanted and appreciated - and instead of saying “and perhaps that sounded like a statement but please treat it as a question” I fall back to “question mark.”
I’ve done it on rare occasions to emphasize the uncertainty of a claim.
I think it’s mostly people like me who use voice to text. You have to tell it the punctuation verbally.
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.
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??
Wow I’ve watched Aqua Teen Hunger Force in the past, but had never heard of this movie!
With Bruce Campbell as Chicken Bittle, the fourth Aqua Teen? How could I forget!
Anyone else reminded of Victor Borge?
This and inflationary language are two of my favorites from him!
Damn, a relavent xkcd to me IRL because I just did this today
My favorite thing about this is the explainxkcd page keeps it going by also spelling out all punctuation
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 tone at the end the sentence?
