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I’m going to be a bit snobbish here: I can’t take the article seriously when it misquotes “Double, double toil and trouble” as “Bubble, bubble toil and trouble”

I’m going to be a bit snobbish here: I can’t take the article seriously when it misquotes “Double, double toil and trouble” as “Bubble, bubble toil and trouble”. Not so much because the mistake is egregious (it could make sense if you’re going by ear), but because the article claims to be about the language used, and this is one of the most famous lines in the play.

gerdesj 5y ago
Sod that mate. The real problem is the weird quotes thing hereabouts. English uses 66 and 99 or this:". We never use double backticks and whatever the other thing is.
- wizzwizz4 5y ago
  `` and '' is just unparsed markup.
  - gerdesj 5y ago
    So where do the top right to bottom left ticks come from? They are not on my keyboard. Obviously I can trivially recreate any character with some effort but those left slanting ticks are not on many keyboards.
    - shakna 5y ago
      The backtick? That's generally the non-shift character on the "tilde key", generally right under the escape key. It's on most physical keyboards.
      - gerdesj 5y ago
        Where do I find these things: “” I use a en_GB keyboard and I have a very broad mind 8) I think I know where 66 and 99 come from.
        michaelmrose 5y ago
        If you have an Apple keyboard it ought to be left of the letter z. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_and_American_keyboards https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_and_American_keyboards
    - dylan604 5y ago
      I blame Microsoft, as it was their software where I was first introduced to "smart" quotes using the extending characters/glyphs of fonts. I can also tell when importing someone's data that was copy/pasted from an Office type program with its auto"correcting" to smart typography.
    - rmccue 5y ago
      The use of `` and '' comes from the typewriter days. You’ll see it particularly with professional authors who have been writing for print since then. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grave_accent#As_surrogate_of_apostrophe_or_(opening)_single_quote https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grave_accent#As_surrogate_of_a... US QWERTY keyboards like the author is almost certainly using have the backtick above the Tab key, shared with ~, and it’s commonly used in programming.
  - 8bitsrule 5y ago
    Odd's bodkins

gerdesj 5y ago

Sod that mate. The real problem is the weird quotes thing hereabouts. English uses 66 and 99 or this:". We never use double backticks and whatever the other thing is.

wizzwizz4 5y ago
`` and '' is just unparsed markup.
- gerdesj 5y ago
  So where do the top right to bottom left ticks come from? They are not on my keyboard. Obviously I can trivially recreate any character with some effort but those left slanting ticks are not on many keyboards.
  - shakna 5y ago
    The backtick? That's generally the non-shift character on the "tilde key", generally right under the escape key. It's on most physical keyboards.
    - gerdesj 5y ago
      Where do I find these things: “” I use a en_GB keyboard and I have a very broad mind 8) I think I know where 66 and 99 come from.
      - michaelmrose 5y ago
        If you have an Apple keyboard it ought to be left of the letter z. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_and_American_keyboards https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_and_American_keyboards
  - dylan604 5y ago
    I blame Microsoft, as it was their software where I was first introduced to "smart" quotes using the extending characters/glyphs of fonts. I can also tell when importing someone's data that was copy/pasted from an Office type program with its auto"correcting" to smart typography.
  - rmccue 5y ago
    The use of `` and '' comes from the typewriter days. You’ll see it particularly with professional authors who have been writing for print since then. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grave_accent#As_surrogate_of_apostrophe_or_(opening)_single_quote https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grave_accent#As_surrogate_of_a... US QWERTY keyboards like the author is almost certainly using have the backtick above the Tab key, shared with ~, and it’s commonly used in programming.
- 8bitsrule 5y ago
  Odd's bodkins