I tried cout() for gullernet but it didn't work. As for bullet, they are not necessarily round. I don't see how that can qualify. It merely depends on the limitations of the software and in html you can format bulleted lists to be graphics, so they can be anything you want really.
You're too influenced by programming, whereas these are textual punctuation marks (note that "!" isn't also called bang here, "." isn't dot, "~" isn't worm, "*" would probably be asterisk and not star, etc.).
A guillemet («), which you might also know as angle quotes, isn't the same as the C++ insertion operator (<<).
This quiz is about and the name of the marks, not their meaning ("¶" isn't "new paragraph", for example). So even if the semantics of the insertion operator were synonymous with cout(), it wouldn't be the correct answer.
cout() also isn't the meaning of the insertion operator; the operator can be applied to other streams or objects. I don't know enough about C++ to know if cout() can be invoked directly, like that, without an operator or method, but either way a bunch of other classes implement <<
QM, can you add about or approximate for ~? Technically it's only a tilde if it's over a letter (I think?), which that symbol doesn't do when you type it out. Even if it is still a tilde, it's also used to say that a number you've put is approximate, not definite.
I learned this in school - I learned it as the / in an and/or situation. I'm probably the only one but I put virgule first before I put slash :-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slash_(punctuation)
Although 'slash' is commonly used in the UK these days (mainly in the giving out of email addresses) I continue to prefer to use oblique, as 'slash' is UK English slang for urinate (as in "I need a slash"). I believe 'Solidus' is a more formal term that can also be employed.
Those of us who can remember dictation as an activity in French classes might remember "Ouvrez les guillemets" as an instruction the teacher gives when asking students to open speech marks.
It's not really standard usage. But if we are going to coin a new word for it, I prefer strudel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_sign
"The fact that there is no single word in English for the symbol has prompted some writers to use the French arobase[3] or Spanish and Portuguese arroba, or to coin new words such as asperand,[4] ampersat[5] and strudel,[6] but none of these has achieved wide usage."
I kind of feel like I shouldn't have gotten a couple because I know that a bracket and a brace are different but I still typed bracket. Also I misspelled ellipsis.
The Hyphen could also be an "em dash" or possibly an "en dash"? One is longer than the other and I can't remember which. I'm sure someone in internet-land will put me right!
Good quiz, I like it when I learn stuff as well as showing off what I know!
the em dash is longer! I remember because you can think of the dash being the length of that letter, so an en dash is as long as "n" and em dash is as long as "m" :-)
Good quiz, thank you, though (being picky here, sorry!) I don't believe they all actually qualify as punctuation. Some (the tilde) are diacritical marks dealing with pronunciation and others are editing marks. But fun nonetheless!
I know what an interrobang is, but I have to say that the symbol you have (at least in the font that my browser uses) doesn't look like an interrobang to me.
It's about the name of the mark, not its meaning. As an editor, you wouldn't tell your author "You should write out the word and here instead of using an et."
When I was a copy editor before widespread use of computers a forward slash was always called a virgule. According to Dictionary.com, “ Virgule definition, a short oblique stroke (/) between two words . . .”
Not everybody is a native English speaker, many of the other symbols might have a similar name (taken from the same source/root) in other languages, but a dot is such a common symbol it is exists outside of texts as well, so it is very likely they already had a name for it in their own language.
It is not a cross but a dagger. It might have slightly lost its shape and is less recognizable in online text, but in actual books you can still see the original shape. Mainly in non-fiction books since they tend to have more footnotes. And you have a good chance that the older the book is the fancier the shape. I can remember seeing some very fancy ones.
The Science of Discworld used a lot of footnotes and I am sure they used daggers too, though I am not sure if it was just in the scientific chapters or in the fiction chapters too.
I kept wanting to call the ellipsis an eclipse or epilogue. And I always thought of thought of the guillemete as “Spanish quotation marks” because of my high school Spanish classes
ugh first I thought of crow, tried crow(s)foot and feet, then I felt like it started with a p, somehow pilfer came to mind, but obviously that is something totally different, I had no idea I was actually so close!
You're too influenced by programming, whereas these are textual punctuation marks (note that "!" isn't also called bang here, "." isn't dot, "~" isn't worm, "*" would probably be asterisk and not star, etc.).
A guillemet («), which you might also know as angle quotes, isn't the same as the C++ insertion operator (<<).
This quiz is about and the name of the marks, not their meaning ("¶" isn't "new paragraph", for example). So even if the semantics of the insertion operator were synonymous with cout(), it wouldn't be the correct answer.
cout() also isn't the meaning of the insertion operator; the operator can be applied to other streams or objects. I don't know enough about C++ to know if cout() can be invoked directly, like that, without an operator or method, but either way a bunch of other classes implement <<
Those of us who can remember dictation as an activity in French classes might remember "Ouvrez les guillemets" as an instruction the teacher gives when asking students to open speech marks.
It's not really standard usage. But if we are going to coin a new word for it, I prefer strudel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_sign
"The fact that there is no single word in English for the symbol has prompted some writers to use the French arobase[3] or Spanish and Portuguese arroba, or to coin new words such as asperand,[4] ampersat[5] and strudel,[6] but none of these has achieved wide usage."
Good quiz, I like it when I learn stuff as well as showing off what I know!
In Unicode, the "Guillemet" (U+00AB) is called simply "LEFT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK", but usually "double angle quote" is good enough.
I guess it makes more sense why they use it for extinct species now :p
on August 18th, 2023 I learned what a guillemet was
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The Science of Discworld used a lot of footnotes and I am sure they used daggers too, though I am not sure if it was just in the scientific chapters or in the fiction chapters too.
semicolon: dot comma
exclamation point: dooooooooot dot
bullet: DOT
Period : punt
Colon: dubbele punt
Semicolon: puntkomma
Ellipsis: puntje puntje puntje
Marks above the i and j: punt
Punt is dot or well.. point. (dubbel=double and -je is adiminutive)