What exactly are punctuation marks? (Parentheses, brackets, ticks, etc.)
In our international (TypeScript) developer team, we often have problems in the communication, in the worst case, everyone realizes something else. Why would I unmistakable know, how should we call each of the followings letters/letters/special characters (what is their common name?)?
What is brace above parenthesis or round bracket? ) closing brace or parenthesis or round bracket? Starting with Square bracket or an opening bracket? ] closing square bracket... or closing bracket? opening curved bracket not very usefully, curly bracket? closing curved bracket or sometimes closing brace? opening angle bracket, opening chevron? > > closing angle bracket, closing chevron? | pipe " double quotes'' can eet : colon; semicolon! What is its equivalent to a call sign or exclamation mark? caret? What is the u00b0 degree sign? Why we should don't have dashe? Do ticks get back the same as grave? tick acute? section sign - dash _ under line? tilde My
aim is to use a common (generally accepted, clear) wording for these signs and to suppress misunderstandings and opinion based usages.
Starting from now on we well call opening curly brace, forget all other descriptions. Example:
How do I evaluate “opening curly brace”?
Is there any good literature that contradicts the basics of the English language?
How do you use English as your favorite language? The New Hacker’s Dictionary (PDF) is the best guide for the use of this jargon. The ASCII entry covers most of the symbols you asked about. (Alas, this is the first one you submitted).
Use short names. It pays to be descriptive. What character has “ing” in the quotation marks? Can you shorten parenthesis to paren and shorten semicolon to sem? Where I can see square brackets, the word square can also be omitted. If the word curly is a native word, it can be shortened to curly.
Some symbols have multiple meanings, depending on the context. Microsoft calls “C#” “C Sharp.” “#” can also mean “pound” (the weight, not the currency), “hash”, or “number”. In many languages, the angle brackets are the same as the “> ” less than” and “greater than” characters.
Typographers use many kinds of “dash”. Why have various characters for minus signs, n-dashes and m-dashes been introduced to Unicode? Why do most compilers use the same hyphen in the source code of the programs that they use to sign up “n-dash” or a total of -1 and 2 instead of an m-dash. So when a “-” comes on top of an minus letter it denotes the word “–e” when a “-” comes on top of an minus.
Most names are weird and some are more interesting. A “caret” looks like a “hat”, and “hat” is shorter than “caret”. (It also looks like a circumflex accent”, which is used like a “hat” over many letters and unit vector names.) The “not” symbol is also exclamation mark “!”! How did it get its name “bang” (heart-in-cheek symbol)? It is often used by American software engineers to replace the initial “tilde” character with “twiddle”.
( open paren )close paren close bracket or close square bracket open curly or open curly bracket close curly or close curly bracket open angle or open angle bracket or less than > > close angle or close angle bracket or greater than | pipe " double quote? Bang or not hat or caret u00b0 degree or degrees, number or sharp or hash sign back tick tick section or sign - ascii or the hyphen and under) twiddle or tilde tilde or tilde
tilde or tilde.
How do you use English as your favorite language? The New Hacker’s Dictionary (PDF) is the best guide for the use of this jargon. The ASCII entry covers most of the symbols you asked about. (Alas, this is the first one you submitted).
Use short names. It pays to be descriptive. What character has “ing” in the quotation marks? Can you shorten parenthesis to paren and shorten semicolon to sem? Where I can see square brackets, the word square can also be omitted. If the word curly is a native word, it can be shortened to curly.
Some symbols have multiple meanings, depending on the context. Microsoft calls “C#” “C Sharp.” “#” can also mean “pound” (the weight, not the currency), “hash”, or “number”. In many languages, the angle brackets are the same as the “> ” less than” and “greater than” characters.
Typographers use many kinds of “dash”. Why have various characters for minus signs, n-dashes and m-dashes been introduced to Unicode? Why do most compilers use the same hyphen in the source code of the programs that they use to sign up “n-dash” or a total of -1 and 2 instead of an m-dash. So when a “-” comes on top of an minus letter it denotes the word “–e” when a “-” comes on top of an minus.
Most names are weird and some are more interesting. A “caret” looks like a “hat”, and “hat” is shorter than “caret”. (It also looks like a circumflex accent”, which is used like a “hat” over many letters and unit vector names.) The “not” symbol is also exclamation mark “!”! How did it get its name “bang” (heart-in-cheek symbol)? It is often used by American software engineers to replace the initial “tilde” character with “twiddle”.
( open paren )close paren close bracket or close square bracket open curly or open curly bracket close curly or close curly bracket open angle or open angle bracket or less than > > close angle or close angle bracket or greater than | pipe " double quote? Bang or not hat or caret u00b0 degree or degrees, number or sharp or hash sign back tick tick section or sign - ascii or the hyphen and under) twiddle or tilde tilde or tilde
tilde or tilde.
