where did ``xxx" quotes come from?
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Name:
Anonymous
2010-04-11 16:52
Ive seen the quoting style of using 2 backticks (``) in front with regular double quotes on the end of something being quoted. Im assuming this is from K&R, but does anyone know where that originates from and if there is any practical reason for it?
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Anonymous
2010-04-11 16:58
/prog/ really is dead.
3
Name:
Anonymous
2010-04-11 16:59
LA TE X quotes
4
Name:
Anonymous
2010-04-11 16:59
Tex Quotes I think.
5
Name:
Anonymous
2010-04-11 17:06
´´am I doing it right``
6
Name:
Anonymous
2010-04-11 17:07
˝DONT USE FAGGOT QUOTES˝
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Name:
Anonymous
2010-04-11 18:24
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Name:
Anonymous
2010-04-11 19:39
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Name:
Anonymous
2010-04-11 21:26
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Name:
Anonymous
2010-04-11 21:51
>>1
A simple Google would've yielded
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html .
Summary:
Faggot quotes considered harmful.
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Anonymous
2010-04-11 23:29
>>10
Pedantry over ``faggot quotes'' (````'''') considered harmful.
12
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Anonymous
2010-04-12 17:29
>>11
Listen here, jerkface. Faggot quotes might have been acceptable at the time of their inception, but they are no longer acceptable. Every time you use a new instance of the faggot quote, it perpetuates the myth that it is acceptable.
Why won't you be a part of the solution, Anonymous?
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Anonymous
2010-04-12 17:32
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Name:
Anonymous
2010-04-12 18:22
``Proper quotes'' are the only way to write. People who disagree are know-nothing children.
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Anonymous
2010-04-12 19:31
>>12
No. You are the jerkface, spreading lies and subterfuge. There are the awesome and cool way to quote. Sussman agreed, don't bother him about it.
>>14
Agreed.
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Anonymous
2010-04-12 19:34
>>12
I disagree is why. ``Faggot quotes'' are ugly (undesirable), but they're also distinctive (desirable). Less desirable than ugliness is ``meta-U-somethingsomethingsomethingsomething'' (enclosed in faggot quotes to emphasize faggotry--
as always ).
Most desirable is to treat extracodeblock faggot quotes as BBCode, and in a small way I am part of that solution by perpetuating ``faggot quotes''.
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Anonymous
2010-04-13 0:55
>>15
awesome and cool way to quote
Suuuuure, let's all just destroy the English language by using grave as a quote character, when it has no functional purpose.
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Anonymous
2010-04-13 1:31
[/b] S i m p l e S t r i n g [o]
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Name:
Anonymous
2010-04-13 1:32
S i m p l e S t r i n g
21
Name:
Anonymous
2010-04-13 1:32
Don't you just hate off-by-one mistakes?
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Name:
Anonymous
2010-04-13 2:13
S im pl e S tr in g
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Name:
Anonymous
2010-04-13 2:13
Si mp le St ri ng
24
Name:
Anonymous
2010-04-13 2:16
S i m p l e S t r i n g
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Name:
Anonymous
2010-04-13 2:21
Si mp le St ri ng
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Name:
Anonymous
2010-04-13 8:36
>>17
Grave accents best be part of glyphs anyhow. And I don't hear you complaining about the co-opting of the circumflex.
C'est la même chose, ``faggot''.
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Name:
Anonymous
2010-10-09 16:28
``lol wut''
28
Name:
Anonymous
2010-10-09 16:49
These are my ``quotes''. There are many others like them, but these ones are mine. My ``quotes'' are my best friends. They are my life. I must master them as I must master my life. Without me, my ``quotes'' are useless. Without my ``quotes'', I am useless. I must type my ``quotes'' true. I must write more than my enemy, who is trying to extinguish me. I must convince him before he convinces me. I will. Before God I swear this creed: my ``quotes'' and myself are defenders of my network, we are the masters of our enemy, we are the saviors of my life. So be it, until there is no enemy, but peace. Amen.
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Name:
Anonymous
2010-10-09 17:07
Does /prog/ get tex?
``hello''?
30
Name:
Anonymous
2010-10-09 17:38
\text{``Hello?''}
31
Name:
Anonymous
2010-10-09 17:57
>>29
Fuck I wish. /sci/ has jsmath or some shit.
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Anonymous
2010-10-09 19:25
[math] \int f(x) dx[/math
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Name:
Anonymous
2010-10-09 19:25
\int f(x) dx
34
Name:
Anonymous
2010-10-09 20:34
``this style of quoting'' is older than K&R and much older than tex, going back to the earliest teletypes
35
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!5JrU4QOlH6
2010-10-09 20:36
a
36
Name:
Anonymous
2010-10-10 1:04
※ 「This is how cool people quoteです」 ※
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Name:
Anonymous
2010-10-10 1:31
『
>>36- san is only cool in his heat』
38
Name:
Anonymous
2010-10-10 21:16
❝EXPERT ENTERPRISE QUALITY TEAM EDITION QUOTES ❞
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Name:
Anonymous
2010-10-10 22:05
❝this style of quoting❞ is older than K&R and much older than sex, going back to the earliest anustypes
40
Name:
Anonymous
2010-10-11 10:16
66 Better quotes99
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Anonymous
2010-10-11 14:56
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42
Name:
Anonymous
2010-10-11 17:55
>>41
Oh fuck I almost choked on my pasta.
43
Name:
Anonymous
2010-10-11 18:11
>>41
EXPERT BBCODE DEVELOPER
44
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Anonymous
2010-10-11 22:50
dump
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Anonymous
2010-10-11 23:48
REQUESTING SIERPINKSI OF
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2010-10-12 0:03
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2010-10-12 0:04
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2010-10-12 0:07
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2010-10-12 0:09
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2010-10-12 0:13
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2010-10-12 0:18
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2010-10-12 0:19
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2010-10-12 0:21
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Anonymous
2010-10-12 0:24
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57
Name:
Anonymous
2010-10-12 0:40
>>56
Try
harder !
(pun intended)
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Anonymous
2010-10-12 6:12
59
Name:
Anonymous
2010-10-12 21:12
❝I like my quotes like I like my dicks ❞
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2010-10-12 23:44
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