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Type design, setting, fonts, etc.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

my coordination is shot since TBI 10 years ago steering me into typing shortcuts involving skipping two key characters requiring both left and right coordination. shift key is a lot of trouble with timing etc. type in all smalls and often substitute semi-colon for colon and two single quotes make a double quote. ''two singles'' vs "double quote"; easier for me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

I went in for a procedure but half way through there was an issue and we had to stop.

It was a failed semicolonoscopy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

My migration from Java to Kotlin says yes

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I use it whenever I can; it's the bees knees.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Noooooooo!

(From an old-school semicolon user)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

So the solution to bad schooling is to change the language? What kind of participation medal IS THIS ?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Isn't that how language has just always worked?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Wait I thought you wrote acrononyms with a semicolon in the United British Kingdom as in U;K ? That is how they do the number stems like 9,5 out of 10 instead of 9.5 out of 10.

Wow, fools can't even remember how to spell their own country glad I am on the far side of the english channel!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't understand this comment. Why do you think the UK uses semicolons in initials or as a decimal instead of the decimal point?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The second thing is legit, I think. I often communicate with, or see content from, data analysts and researchers from England (I'm in the US). England and many other parts of Europe use a comma as a decimal point.

I've never heard of the semicolon in acronyms/abbreviations, but hey, it's a big world and I don't know lots of things.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yes I made it up, I was being sarcastic my b

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Fair enough. Stay safe my squirrel friend, guard your nuts

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

guard your nuts

looks around for nuts oh damn not again!