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Things that you always wanted to know but never dared to ask
PostPosted: 30 May 2013, 19:42
by Siegfried
I start with a question to Krom: why do you so often write a closing bracket at the end of your sentences? )
Re: Things that you always wanted to know but never dared to
PostPosted: 30 May 2013, 19:46
by Bence791
I guess he is too lazy to type " : "

Re: Things that you always wanted to know but never dared to
PostPosted: 30 May 2013, 20:16
by Shadaoe
I heard that on russian keyboards it's hard to do " : ", so it's just like if he did

Re: Things that you always wanted to know but never dared to
PostPosted: 30 May 2013, 20:38
by krisdw
Yes I see Russian people do that )) very regularly! Always wondered about it too, so good to know

Re: Things that you always wanted to know but never dared to
PostPosted: 31 May 2013, 02:38
by Ben
I always wanted to know this, too! Lol!! I don't know if there are any other such questions that I can think of that fit in this topic, but I'll surely come here if I remember!
P.S., that is not a bracket. That is a parenthesis
bracket -> [] parentheses -> ()
Re: Things that you always wanted to know but never dared to
PostPosted: 31 May 2013, 03:01
by Lewin
Parentheses are still brackets, either name fine. To me brackets refers to ( ). [ ] are usual called square brackets. < > are angle brackets and { } are braces or curly brackets.
Re: Things that you always wanted to know but never dared to
PostPosted: 31 May 2013, 03:03
by Ben
Hmm. Never heard the term applied to parentheses in my math classes, but then again, maybe that was just my text books

Re: Things that you always wanted to know but never dared to
PostPosted: 31 May 2013, 05:03
by Krom
Because typing ) is a bit easier and the carried meaning is the same. Also if you think of

as a face then you need a nose too

and then maybe some hair {:-) then you also need a baseball cap and a neck d{:-)> ... there's just no end xD so in the end ) is just an overly optimized d{:-)>
Re: Things that you always wanted to know but never dared to
PostPosted: 31 May 2013, 06:52
by Ben
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Re: Things that you always wanted to know but never dared to
PostPosted: 31 May 2013, 08:22
by ChrisEggII
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PostPosted: 31 May 2013, 11:37
by Bence791
┬─┬ ノ( ゜-゜ノ) that was nasty!
Re: Things that you always wanted to know but never dared to
PostPosted: 31 May 2013, 12:25
by Ben
Yeah sorry about that. Krom's post was kinda confusing ^^
Re: Things that you always wanted to know but never dared to
PostPosted: 28 Jun 2013, 05:24
by Ben
I have a question, actually. I see a lot of people on this fourm/community that put a blankspace between the last letter of a sentence and the exclamation point. For example: You did a good job !
What's up with that?

Re: Things that you always wanted to know but never dared to
PostPosted: 28 Jun 2013, 06:12
by Lewin
I have a question, actually. I see a lot of people on this fourm/community that put a blankspace between the last letter of a sentence and the exclamation point. For example: You did a good job !
What's up with that?

Good question ! What's worse , IMO , is when they do it with all forms of punctuation . Don't you hate it when people do that ?
Re: Things that you always wanted to know but never dared to
PostPosted: 28 Jun 2013, 13:41
by Shadaoe
Well, in French typology, and surely other languages, we put a space before a : or a !
But not before a, how odd ! We just have the perfect balance (ehm).
In my humble opinion the following looks bad (or maybe I just learnt not to do that at school) :
Hey:
go!