Bang and dot? (1 Viewer)

plog · May 17, 2018

Question mark. Never heard question point.

Mark_ · May 17, 2018

BeeJayEff said:
I don't think so. What do our transatlantic cousins call a "?" - question point or question mark or query or something else entirely ? And I use shriek rather than bang.

ASCII 63?

or Char(63)?

isladogs · May 17, 2018

Mark_ said:
<- is wondering why Uncle decided to separate the USA & UK with a virgule...

P.S. for laughs, I found out that in some Slavic countries "@" is referred to as "Monkey".

Virgule....!!!
Now I think you're just taking the slash..

Mind you I knew someone who thought dot com was referring to ;

Galaxiom · May 17, 2018

plog said:
Question mark. Never heard question point.

I have head a few questions that had no point though.

Galaxiom · May 17, 2018

ridders said:
Virgule....!!!
Now I think you're just taking the slash..

Virgule can also refer to the vertical bar | which is often called a "pipe" in computing after its usage to send output of one command to another.

Virgule is the French and Portuguese word for a comma.

Mark_ · May 18, 2018

ridders said:
Virgule....!!!
Now I think you're just taking the slash..

Nope. Were I taking the slash I'd rather do it with with a Voulge. Much better tool for the job.

isladogs · May 18, 2018

I was aware it was a slash. I was taking the piss...

However I didn't know it could refer to the pipe symbol

Thought I'd look up other names for backslash:

It is sometimes called a hack, whack, escape (from C/UNIX), reverse slash, slosh, downwhack, backslant, backwhack, bash, reverse slant, and reversed virgule

Then of course we have the pilcrow

The_Doc_Man · May 18, 2018

Now I have heard many Navy guys reading off web sites as mumble-whack-whack-mumble-dot-com-whack ... so I have heard that use of the slash.

But if you REALLY want to get crazy...

http://mentalfloss.com/article/12710/13-little-known-punctuation-marks-we-should-be-using

isladogs · May 18, 2018

The_Doc_Man said:
Now I have heard many Navy guys reading off web sites as mumble-whack-whack-mumble-dot-com-whack ... so I have heard that use of the slash.

But if you REALLY want to get crazy...

http://mentalfloss.com/article/12710/13-little-known-punctuation-marks-we-should-be-using

Brilliant. Definitely worth a snark mark .~

Minty · May 18, 2018

I like the use of the term The Dog's Bollocks :----

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog's_bollocks_(typography)

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