Punctuation FTW!
August 9, 2017 7:25 PM Subscribe
At its leading edge, punctuation is volcanically active, giving shape to concepts that move far faster than words. Anyone communicating today has seen #topics and #themes and #categories identified this way, using a symbol that was intuitively understood and replicated even before it was first called a hashtag in 2007. via daringfireball
The initial nine visual exceptions to the boring "#" symbol are as refreshing as the first sniff of a well-spiced dish.
posted by kozad at 8:03 PM on August 9, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by kozad at 8:03 PM on August 9, 2017 [1 favorite]
Nºººº°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°
posted by louche mustachio at 8:04 PM on August 9, 2017 [2 favorites]
posted by louche mustachio at 8:04 PM on August 9, 2017 [2 favorites]
℥
*gentle gasp*
I love this one, like a rare antique machine I can't get parts for and don't fully understand how to use.
posted by louche mustachio at 8:08 PM on August 9, 2017 [8 favorites]
*gentle gasp*
I love this one, like a rare antique machine I can't get parts for and don't fully understand how to use.
posted by louche mustachio at 8:08 PM on August 9, 2017 [8 favorites]
But braces are graphic rather than typographic forms, seldom meant to be used at the same size as the type they enclose, making them a questionable member of the character set.
How in the world can an article mention Python and C# yet still say this? Admittedly I think they were primarily graphic, before keyboards and computers and character sets, when people started looking at the row of symbols they had already as their "vocabulary" of punctuation instead of free penmanship where a person can draw - – — as freely or dramatically as they wish without caring about the codepoint difference between endash and emdash.
posted by traveler_ at 8:56 PM on August 9, 2017 [1 favorite]
How in the world can an article mention Python and C# yet still say this? Admittedly I think they were primarily graphic, before keyboards and computers and character sets, when people started looking at the row of symbols they had already as their "vocabulary" of punctuation instead of free penmanship where a person can draw - – — as freely or dramatically as they wish without caring about the codepoint difference between endash and emdash.
posted by traveler_ at 8:56 PM on August 9, 2017 [1 favorite]
My mom is an RN from the 50s, so I've seen a lot of "the symbols of yore," and I still use c̄ all the time, which I picked up probably by junior high school.
posted by rhizome at 1:18 AM on August 10, 2017
posted by rhizome at 1:18 AM on August 10, 2017
I still use c̄ all the time
My wife is in a medical field, and I see this symbol all the time on our shopping and meal-planning lists. It still gives me a brief "wtf am I looking at" moment.
Those numeros are beautiful, though.
posted by uncleozzy at 4:34 AM on August 10, 2017 [1 favorite]
My wife is in a medical field, and I see this symbol all the time on our shopping and meal-planning lists. It still gives me a brief "wtf am I looking at" moment.
Those numeros are beautiful, though.
posted by uncleozzy at 4:34 AM on August 10, 2017 [1 favorite]
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posted by louche mustachio at 8:00 PM on August 9, 2017 [2 favorites]