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Although now people will realize three-per-em spaceāthat all this time Iāve been using weird medium mathematical spaceāwhitespace characters in my hair spaceāhair spaceāhair spaceāspeech dot dot dotā¦
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3143/
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There really is an xkcd for everything.
Tbh, I hate in much more when people say āquote unquoteā before starting their quote.
Itās like writing ""Here is the quoted text.
Unquote ends the quote. So āquote unquoteā means ""Hereās an empty quote, now let me ramble on about something that is not a quote.
youāre thinking too much like a computer.
in human speech, when āquote unquoteā is used, itās typically obvious when the quote ends from the tone and pace of what is said.
the function of āquote unquoteā is to reduce the awkwardness and increase the impact of reciting a quote by obviating the need to state the word āunquoteā at the end of a quote.
compare:
He ended every speech with quote and carthege must be destroyed unquote
with
He ended each speech with quote unquote carthege must be destroyed
Try saying both out loud. I think youāll agree that the second form sounds less awkward and more impactful
Thatās why in most other languages (and that works in english too), if you donāt want to specifically mark the end of your quote, you just say something like āAnd the he said, I quote, your mom is so fat that she has her own gravitational well.ā
No need or point to put an unnecesary āend quoteā marker before the beginning of your quote.
Thatās the point though, quote to tell people itās a quote and unquote to signal that you are using it out of context or sarcastically, thus not quoting the original sentiment. Itās correct.
I think theyāre more annoyed that some people say both right before they start the quote
Forgot to close out italics
When people say āquestion markā out loud
always a relevant XKCD
Oh I can shad a light on that! Hope itās not en pair with the shelter animal hunting though.
When weāre in a fast paces dialogue with a high level of rapport I start speaking my thoughts before theyāre finished - and it happens that a thought starts out as āmy opinion is ā¦ā And in the middle transfers to āoh it would be way more interesting what your thoughts on this are!ā. Or Iām mentally distracted and fall back to the monologue voice ā¦
Either way: the flow of the sentence already started as a statement and now I want to make sure that itās clear that your input is wanted and appreciated - and instead of saying āand perhaps that sounded like a statement but please treat it as a questionā I fall back to āquestion mark.ā
i think the hovertext is ā[ā¦]hair spaceā hair spaceā hair spaceā speech dot[ā¦]ā as in you missed some spaces.
I donāt recall ever hearing someone do that. Is this a thing people do?
Iāve done it on rare occasions to emphasize the uncertainty of a claim.
I think itās 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 Iām pretty sure the thing I said is true but I have doubt.
" the glasses are only cosmetic, question mark"
Also turns out Iām pretty sure the devs patched the glasses,and they now negatively effect aim.
Copy/paste instead of linking because Lemmy doesnāt like me>
I can shad a light on that! [ā¦]
When weāre in a fast paces dialogue with a high level of rapport I start speaking my thoughts before theyāre finished - and it happens that a thought starts out as āmy opinion is ā¦ā And in the middle transfers to āoh it would be way more interesting what your thoughts on this are!ā.
Or Iām mentally distracted and fall back to the monologue voice ā¦
Either way: the flow of the sentence already started as a statement and now I want to make sure that itās clear that your input is wanted and appreciated - and instead of saying āand perhaps that sounded like a statement but please treat it as a questionā I fall back to āquestion mark.ā
Iāve heard some people use it when they donāt have the rising inflection in their voice that usually denotes a question. Iāve also used and seen it used to mean dubious claim as the other poster mentioned! Not very commonly though.
Thought it was gonna be about when phone dictation bleeds into the real world.
I actually thought this was going to be the punchline.
I donāt have a question, and donāt call me Mark!
Anyone else reminded of Victor Borge?
This and inflationary language are two of my favorites from him!
Gonna start to call out the indentations and brackets for my inner dialogue.
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 Iāve watched Aqua Teen Hunger Force in the past, but had never heard of this movie!
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
I couldnāt make it through to what I assume would have been the.good part, unfortunately
