by Marius on Wed Mar 01, 2006 9:23 pm
Ave, mi Draco!
'LOL' is 'joke' in Dutch...? I love it!!! Wonder if ROTFLMAOASTPD means anything, in *any* language?
(In Marian 'leetspeak, of course, it is 'Rolling On The Floor Laughing My [buttbone] Off And Scaring The Puppy-Dogs".)
Related question: Have many of you noticed that hackers have their own punctuation, too? I speak specifically of 'inclusive' vs. 'exclusive' quote-marks. Standard English does it like so:
(material to be quoted) --> Standard English does it like so.
-- Standard English: Marius wrote, "Standard English does it like so."
-- Hackspeak: Marius wrote, "Standard English does it like so".
In the first example, the quote marks enclose the period at the end of the sentence ('inclusive' quote)...I think because it is considered that the quoted material is grammatically only part of a full sentence about Marius writing something. But in the Hackish version, the quoted matter is separated and distinct from anything else in the sentence, including the period ('exclusive' quote).
Why fer...? --Because in computer programming, it is very important to input the code--and only the code--exactly as written. Nothing goes inside the quotes (or parens, or braces, or brackets) that isn't meant to go inside the computer. So what Marius actually said is subconsciously singled out, made a distinct entity...in fact, marked out as "code". 'Nesting', the layering of parentheses and braces and brackets, is also critical. Otherwise...well, you know what happens when you put things in an URL that aren't part of the URL; it's like that!
In nomine Alde Marii (this 'un's my "test" login),