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« Reply #75 on: September 03, 2005, 11:43:01 AM » |
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"One C-four-Vertical line-backslash-vertical line Exclamation mark exclamation mark one one"
Translation: "1 C4|\|!!11"
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Jigen
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« Reply #76 on: October 17, 2005, 02:13:17 PM » |
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Ah for cent-sign, and-sign, dollar sign.
And collon and semi-collon too.
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Set a match alight, and a man will be warm for a minute.
Set a man on fire and he\'ll be warm the rest of his life.
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Corsair5
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« Reply #77 on: March 09, 2006, 03:35:41 PM » |
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What's this about Cad and :;?
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Jigen
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« Reply #78 on: March 28, 2006, 05:18:00 AM » |
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Translation: Ah for %&$ (cent-sign replaced with percentage)
Swearing in long-hand asterix-mouth.
Just play Sam and Max, you'll find out.
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Set a match alight, and a man will be warm for a minute.
Set a man on fire and he\'ll be warm the rest of his life.
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Reish Vedaur
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« Reply #79 on: March 28, 2006, 08:49:34 PM » |
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And it's "ampersand."
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Jigen
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« Reply #80 on: March 30, 2006, 02:59:17 AM » |
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Sorry, I only ever had the CD version.
Just what is 'ampersand' anyway? is that the '@' symbol?
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Reish Vedaur
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« Reply #81 on: March 30, 2006, 04:02:06 PM » |
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*forehead firmly planted against desk*
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« Reply #82 on: March 30, 2006, 08:28:13 PM » |
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I thought Ampersand was a like Prozac.
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Jigen
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« Reply #83 on: March 31, 2006, 07:58:50 AM » |
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*forehead firmly planted against desk* That's delightfully non-helpful. Try... I don't know... elaborating? |
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« Reply #84 on: March 31, 2006, 05:37:04 PM » |
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& = ampersand, the symbol for the word "and"
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Jigen
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« Reply #85 on: April 01, 2006, 02:35:50 AM » |
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Ah so you were telling me the correct (and practically never used) word for '&' rather than what was said in the source I was quoting, right.
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Reish Vedaur
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« Reply #86 on: April 01, 2006, 05:01:47 AM » |
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Correct. *head begins growing roots into desktop*
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Jigen
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« Reply #87 on: April 03, 2006, 01:34:29 AM » |
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So... out of curiosity, why did they bother making up a name for it? Why bother naming something that's shorthand for something else?
(Yes I do just want to see him slam his head into the desk again. I like to think of it as natural selection in action.)
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Set a match alight, and a man will be warm for a minute.
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« Reply #88 on: April 16, 2006, 03:57:35 AM » |
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why does anyone make changes to a dictionary? probably because some idiot beaurocrat decided that it was necessary for "political correctness"
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c/dos
c/dos/run
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