Paul -
I am from Ontario, Canada. I have heard french brackets on many occasions. In addition, fancy or curly brackets has been used as well.
Paul -
I am from Ontario, Canada. I have heard french brackets on many occasions. In addition, fancy or curly brackets has been used as well.
Heh. Reminds me of the interviewee that kept talking about his experience in âSee-poundâ. He didnât get the job.
Mark on June 14, 2008 04:05 AM:
Ahh, the age-old # = pound, number, hash, octothorpe, sharp, etc debate.
Actually, the â#â symbol has appeared on our telephones long before computers became commonplace. In this context, itâs always been called âpoundâ.
Note, I still call it âpoundâ when referring to the button on a telephone, but I call the character itself a âhash symbolâ.
You left out:
@ monkey
parenthesis are âbananasâ - left banana, right banana. Think about it.
âWhat purpose does the backslash purpose serve, anyway? Itâs the path separator in Windows, of course, but you canât use a regular slash in file names, and lots of Windows programs will take either as the separator. Most of the above have origins in pre-digital typesetting, but I canât think of a non-computer use for a backslash.â
Actually, internally Windows treats â/â the same as ââ in paths. This is the case since DOS2.0 (and that was the first version of DOS knowing about paths at all, before that there only where drive letters and files). Only the user interface like cmd.exe or explorer.exe insist of using backslashes. So I never understood the fuzz about âportingâ file names to convert backslashes to slashes and vice versa. Using slashes only would have been just fine, especially because in many languages you have to type two backslashes to get a single one. And that is, just because some moron at Microsoft decided to use a well-established escape character for path delimiting. âWe are different from Unix, eh?â
Does no one else refer to a Single quote as a âSquoteâ?
I just invented new terms for \ /
How about left-right slash or left-right bar because of the way they lean?
Isnât the @ called an ampersat ? the same way the is an ampersand.
My maths professor told me that his name for a brace {} is a tit-bracket.
is left pac man
is right pac man
sorry for triplicate post but what I was trying to say was that I sometimes when I canât think of the words call the left angle bracket left pac man and the right angle bracket right pac man
Having gone to a heavily Unix-oriented college, we CompSci majors quickly learned to refer to ! as âdammitâ or suffer the rantings of one grey-bearded, all-powerful, Berkeley-educated professor. It came from vi, as in :w! âwrite, dammitâ or :q! âquit, dammit.â
Now Iâm working in a Microsoft shop where they canât even say âSQLâ correctly. Itâs making me beard turn greyâŚ
C octothorpe⌠itâs the latest version in .NET 4.0
@Mike McClellan: Itâs called the teary-eye. Look: _
P. S.: Jeff, please implement a threaded view for comments so that discussions can be held more easily within the comments.
Complete Dutch pronunciation (and translation to english)
! uitroepteken (exclamation mark)
" dubbele aanhalingstekens (double quotation marks)
$ dollarteken (dollar mark)
% procent (percent)
en , ampersand (ampersand)
â aanhalingsteken (quotation mark)
() haakjes (hooks)
[] vierkante haakjes, blok haken (square hooks)
{} accolades (from the french for curly brackets)
kleiner dan teken, groter dan teken (smaller than mark, greater than mark)
@ is also known in English as the âcommercial aâ or âcommercial atâ. âAsperandâ seems to be a recent invention that has not yet been formalized by inclusion in any major dictionary.
Itâs always fascinated me that such a ubiquitous character does not have an âofficialâ, single-word name in English.
Hi Jeff.
Great post (and blog) - very well researched!
So - every key/symbol on a regular keyboard is pretty much used (scarily) whilst coding⌠Howâs about the symbol??? Iâve never used it - it doesnât do anything. Whatâs itâs name? What does it do?
Mike