English vs English

[Yantelope V2]

yeah, check off =

 

update: Sonofa! Beat me to it!

Edited March 26, 2012 by Yantelope V2

[Thursday Next]

I'd actually be ok with checking things off. Being ticked off is a more polite way of saying pissed off.

[Battra92]

Tick also refers to these little bastards

[MasterDex]

And this guy:

[Faiblesse Des Sens]

A "tick" can also refer to someone with tourette's syndrome. Their "tick" is whatever odd quirk they have because of tourette's.

Edited March 27, 2012 by Faiblesse Des Sens

[Luftwaffles]

A "tick" can also refer to someone with tourette's syndrome. Their "tick" is whatever odd quirk they have because of tourette's.

 

I think that's spelled "tic", actually. Not that it really matters, though, it's pronounced the same.

[TheMightyEthan]

Yeah, that's a tic.

[Yantelope V2]

So do your keyboards over there come with the £ symbol above the number 4 on your keyboards or do you have to paste it out of the character map every time?

[deanb]

We've covered this before but:

1! 2" 3£ 4$ 5% 6^ 7& 8* 9( 0)

Alt Gr+4 = € too

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_and_American_keyboards

[TheMightyEthan]

1! 2@ 3# then the rest are the same.

 

Also, what does the "Gr" in "Alt Gr+4" mean?

[Yantelope V2]

Thanks for the link Dean. Your keyboard is all kinds of crazy.

Edited March 29, 2012 by Yantelope V2

[deanb]

Gear? I dunno. (Wiki says Graphics/Graph/Grill. Seems it has been lost in the midst of time)

 

It's certainly not Ctrl, that's a separate key.

[TheMightyEthan]

Oh, I see, "Alt Gr" is one key. We don't have that, we just have two Alt keys.

[deanb]

Well Alt Gr is the second alt key. And yeah it's one key, or I'd have gone Alt+Gr+4

[TheFlyingGerbil]

I much prefer our @ positioning right next to the shift key for emails addresses.

 

Also, just found the coolest character ever:

 

°ᴥ°

[Yantelope V2]

that'd be alt+alt+4 here.

[TheMightyEthan]

alt+alt+4 doesn't do anything on my keyboard except make windows ding at me.

[deanb]

Why are fantasy world accents British?

 

tl;dr:

A British accent is sufficiently exotic to transport the viewer to a different reality, argues Seitz, while still being comprehensible to a global audience.

[Yantelope V2]

I thought it was the historical aspect of fantasy. Ye oldé english movie!

[deanb]

Errm, just to go back a bit: How did you writer é if you don't have Alt Gr?

[fuchikoma]

"e" usually.

 

I'm guessing by opening the "Character Map" program and copying it to the clipboard from the palette?

 

I used to write the pound sign with alt+0157 but that doesn't seem to work these days...

Edited March 30, 2012 by fuchikoma

[deanb]

Typing e on it's own = e. However e+ Alt Gr = é.

Óúr kéybóárds áré áll fúll óf áccénts.

[Hot Heart]

It actually annoys me that they've got American accents in the Witcher games. Especially when they'd hired British actors for some parts...

[fuchikoma]

That's pretty cool... Actually, for the longest time you could do that on a Mac, so maybe Yan's on a Mac? They've always been ahead of Windows for international support (god, the hacks I used to display Japanese on Win 3.1... or the way Win95 would flip out when it saw filenames from Win95J...)

 

But yeah, I forgot Macs can easily type accented letters and things like copyright and registration mark symbols by holding down... option?

[fuchikoma]

Interesting thing about "ye olde ___" - it's not meant to be read "yee" but "the", as it was originally written with the letter thorn, as "þe". As I understand, "Ye" and "Þe" looked similar in blackletter calligraphy and started to be used interchangeably in common words before "th" was adopted.