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- firstbabylonianSomehow it is always Russian technologists and designers who sweat this type of stuff the most and want to talk about it. When I moved from Russia to a western country in my teenage years, as a fledging web developer and previously an avid Kovodstvo [1] reader, I remember feeling upset, surprised, and deeply disappointed by the state of the real-world English language - particularly when it came to punctuation. It shocked me to see how loose and vibe-y it was, even in professional contexts. Nowadays, I understand that the majority of the world’s population has a much more casual relationship with the formal rules of their language, if those exist at all, compared to the hyper-pedantic Russians. I’m not one to say who really should be learning from whom.1: https://www.artlebedev.com/mandership/
- malkiaСадись. Двойка! - "Sit down, you got an F" :) - sorry, as bulgarian it was funny to me this used as example (from russian).
- Grom_PELinux:Compose key, period, period = ellipsis …Compose key, period, equals = bullet •Compose key, period, minus = interpunct ·Compose key, !, ? = interrobang ‽
- jonhohleThere’s a quick note about the interrobang (‽) at the end. I’ve long had it in my macOS/iOS text replacement config, but nearly every font renders it so poorly that I usually manually retype the characters. It looks like a typographical mistake more often than communicating the questioned surprise that’s intended.There was a push a few years ago by some modern fonts (as illustrated in the article) to place the overlapping exclamation and question mark at a 30-45° from each other while sharing the same dot below, which is a huge improvement, but I doubt older fonts will ever be updated.
- gitowiecI'm turning on cancel culture, no russian reading
- andaiOriginal title:Manual: •.,:;…!?·(Except printed in a really cool font!)
- monoculturedNice reference – thanks for the post!
- encom>In European and many other languages[...]What? I was taught danish, english, german, french - never European.
- guff_seInteresting how the article does not “delve” into the use of the emdash, considering its own excessive use of it.