Punctuation is powerful

mk17 · 12 Sep 2011 at 01:02

Edrof · 12 Sep 2011 at 07:05

Punctuation is also bloomin' complicated.

Vonhelmet · 12 Sep 2011 at 08:31

It sure is.

Cosimo · 12 Sep 2011 at 08:33

mrk said:
Try telling that one with an abacus!

Try using one as a calculator.

Cosimo · 12 Sep 2011 at 08:34

Forde said:
Punctuation is also bloomin' complicated.

Indeed it is.

Edrof · 12 Sep 2011 at 08:48

A quick example would be how dastardly dashes and horrible hyphens are used:

Hyphen for joining words (keypad 'minus' key): ‐
En Dash (CTRL + keypad 'minus' key) for separating dates and other values: –
Em Dash (CTRL + ALT + keypad 'minus' key) for interruptions: —

Kinda understandable why most people just use the keypad's 'minus'. Coincidentally, I've just ordered a book about such things from The Rainforest.

EDIT: keyboard shortcuts for Microsoft Word.

NathanE · 12 Sep 2011 at 09:06

If only those En Dash and Em Dash shortcut keys worked... people might use them.

bhavv · 12 Sep 2011 at 09:11

Forde said:
A quick example would be how dastardly dashes and horrible hyphens are used:

Hyphen for joining words (keypad 'minus' key): ‐
En Dash (CTRL + keypad 'minus' key) for separating dates and other values: –
Em Dash (CTRL + ALT + keypad 'minus' key) for interruptions: —

Kinda understandable why most people just use the keypad's 'minus'. Coincidentally, I've just ordered a book about such things from The Rainforest.

Neither of those En Dash or Em Dash things worked for me. CTRL + keypad minus = Zoom out.

Edrof · 12 Sep 2011 at 09:27

Sorry, I should have said: I think they might only work in MS Word. I've no idea how to get them up in browsers, apart from using copy and paste, of course.

paddy · 12 Sep 2011 at 09:41

If anyone has a spare comma lying around the auto-cue is missing one

utajoker · 12 Sep 2011 at 10:33

It's a black board.

ntg · 12 Sep 2011 at 10:41

That's why the bracket system {using brackets to expand and explain such as {}} is so powerful {and by powerful I mean suitable for describing meanings {meanings here refer to the point you want to take across}}

gillywibble · 12 Sep 2011 at 13:15

You missed a }

ntg · 12 Sep 2011 at 13:18

gillywibble said:
You missed a }

no i didn't!

gillywibble · 12 Sep 2011 at 13:24

kgi said:
no i didn't!

Use quotes next time, I got confused

lotus7 · 12 Sep 2011 at 14:16

This is family safe without punctuation.

Great **** like coconuts.

edit: **** are birds dammit !

godinman · 12 Sep 2011 at 14:31

paddy said:
If anyone has a spare comma lying around the auto-cue is missing one

If that is the funniest BBC news blooper ever, then well, you know. It's bad and stuff.

Sp00n · 12 Sep 2011 at 14:39

But it states so in the title so it has to be true, not just true, but 100% fact.

eXor · 12 Sep 2011 at 14:44

Forde said:
Em Dash (CTRL + ALT + keypad 'minus' key) for interruptions: —

It's always fun to browse a web page where such characters have found their way into the markup.

paddy · 12 Sep 2011 at 15:35

godinman said:
If that is the funniest BBC news blooper ever, then well, you know. It's bad and stuff.

Sp00n said:
But it states so in the title so it has to be true, not just true, but 100% fact.

As Sp00n says, why would you question it? The uploader obviously researched the competition prior to uploading.