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> Fun fact: There are no such things as "spelling bees" in Spanish speaking countries. Not so surprising, this is a uniquely american thing~, there is no such
by flukus 9y ago
> Fun fact: There are no such things as "spelling bees" in Spanish speaking countries.
Not so surprising, this is a uniquely american thing~, there is no such thins as spelling bees^ in the rest of the anglosphere either.
~ It's probably bleeding out to the rest of the world now.
^ "spelling bee" itself has an interesting etymology: http://spellingbee.com/origin-term-spelling-bee http://spellingbee.com/origin-term-spelling-bee
edit - how the hell do you escape an asterix on HN?
- majewsky 9y agoYou don't. Most people use bracketed numbers for footnotes, or obscure characters like †. Also, it's called "asterisk". Asterix only needs to escape from the Romans. ;)
- Freak_NL 9y ago> […] or obscure characters like †. The 'dagger' also called 'obelisk'¹. There's a double dagger (‡) if you need another footnote, but yeah, they're not as versatile as just using numbers. 1: Not to be confused with Obelix: Asterix' chubby friend the Romans are usually (vainly) trying to escape from.
- yorwba 9y agoYou can escape an asterisk by separating it with spaces like this: * . Then it won't appear as cursive, even if you use * several * of them. The HN formatting rules are really minimal: https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc