Talk:2337: Asterisk Corrections - Revision history

78.144.255.82 at 22:07, 17 December 2025

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12.35.15.242 at 21:06, 17 December 2025

2025-12-17T21:06:47Z

Winter1760: add comment

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Mumiemonstret at 13:40, 12 August 2020

2020-08-12T13:40:45Z

Mumiemonstret at 13:40, 12 August 2020

2020-08-12T13:40:17Z

172.69.135.98: carets

2020-08-05T04:48:47Z

carets

172.69.250.44 at 18:33, 31 July 2020

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108.162.216.58 at 23:05, 29 July 2020

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172.69.34.232 at 01:00, 28 July 2020

2020-07-28T01:00:02Z

162.158.7.97: Horse sentence unnecessary.

2020-07-27T21:33:35Z

Horse sentence unnecessary.

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 : Alternatively, witchcraft replaces maybe: "I'd love to meet up, [how about we practice] witchcraft in a few days?" [[Special:Contributions/162.158.75.66|162.158.75.66]] 02:06, 25 July 2020 (UTC)
-A splat? I didn't know that. IME it's just the messed up word resurrected to, summon a beech, auto corrected to the same wrong word. BTW the asterisk on an obsolete keyboard looked like a squished spider, thus 'splat.'
+A splat? I didn't know that. IME it's just the messed up word resurrected to, summon a beech, auto corrected to the same wrong word. BTW the asterisk on an obsolete keyboard looked like a squished spider, thus 'splat.' {{unsigned ip|162.158.75.72|01:56, 25 July 2020}}
 Asterisks can replace multiple words, right? Something like "I'd like to meet up, maybe witchcraft? Next week is looking pretty empty" could work, yeah? [[Special:Contributions/108.162.246.135|108.162.246.135]] 04:36, 25 July 2020 (UTC)
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 :Really, the sentence about riding a horse isn't required for the corrections to have meaning. I showed the corrections without the horse sentence to a group of people, and they still saw the joke. There is enough content in the corrections alone for a human to form a sentence.[[Special:Contributions/162.158.7.97|162.158.7.97]] 21:33, 27 July 2020 (UTC)
-:@WhoCaresAboutMyNameh  I like trying to make witchcraft "as hard as possible." I'd love to meet up, maybe in a few days? Next week is looking pretty empty.
+:@WhoCaresAboutMyNameh  I like trying to make witchcraft "as hard as possible." I'd love to meet up, maybe in a few days? Next week is looking pretty empty. {{unsigned ip|172.69.34.232|01:00, 28 July 2020}}
 That's not even how asterisks work, you're supposed to put it at the END* of a word and then the footnote goes at the bottom.
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 <nowiki>*</nowiki>like this.
-If you can go back in time and add the asterisk into your original text, the above comment is useful. If, like everyone else, you can't, it is not.
+Why don't people use carets anymore? {{unsigned ip|108.162.216.58|23:05, 29 July 2020}}
 :Because they aren't as easy to type on a mobile phone screen, and most people send their sms by phone not by keyboard. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.135.98|172.69.135.98]] 04:48, 5 August 2020 (UTC)
 As a programmer you put a * before a variable to make a pointer to the variable's location. I thought that was where the convention came from.

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	<nowiki>*</nowiki>like this.		<nowiki>*</nowiki>like this.
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		+	If you can go back in time and add the asterisk into your original text, the above comment is useful. If, like everyone else, you can't, it is not.

	Why don't people use carets anymore?		Why don't people use carets anymore?

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	For the sake of the receiver's imagination, I'm glad that the pizza correction didn't come first.[[User:Mumiemonstret\|Mumiemonstret]] ([[User talk:Mumiemonstret\|talk]]) 13:40, 12 August 2020 (UTC)		For the sake of the receiver's imagination, I'm glad that the pizza correction didn't come first.[[User:Mumiemonstret\|Mumiemonstret]] ([[User talk:Mumiemonstret\|talk]]) 13:40, 12 August 2020 (UTC)
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		+	maybe there's something to be said about the order of the corrections? <br/> "i'm gonna ride a horse on the beach at dawn" -> "i'm gonna eat a horse on the beach at dawn" -> "i'm gonna eat a horse on the beach at 3AM" -> "i'm gonna eat a horse on the couch at 3AM" -> "i'm gonna eat a pizza on the couch at 3AM" <br/> also, without the fourth correction, the third becomes slightly more plausible to misread: "i'm gonna eat a couch on the beach at 3AM" --[[User:Winter1760\|Winter1760]] ([[User talk:Winter1760\|talk]]) 04:53, 18 April 2025 (UTC)

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	As a programmer you put a * before a variable to make a pointer to the variable's location. I thought that was where the convention came from.		As a programmer you put a * before a variable to make a pointer to the variable's location. I thought that was where the convention came from.

−	For the sake of the receiver's imagination, I'm glad that the pizza correction didn't come first.	+	For the sake of the receiver's imagination, I'm glad that the pizza correction didn't come first.[[User:Mumiemonstret\|Mumiemonstret]] ([[User talk:Mumiemonstret\|talk]]) 13:40, 12 August 2020 (UTC)

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	As a programmer you put a * before a variable to make a pointer to the variable's location. I thought that was where the convention came from.		As a programmer you put a * before a variable to make a pointer to the variable's location. I thought that was where the convention came from.
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		+	For the sake of the receiver's imagination, I'm glad that the pizza correction didn't come first.

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	Why don't people use carets anymore?		Why don't people use carets anymore?
		+	:Because they aren't as easy to type on a mobile phone screen, and most people send their sms by phone not by keyboard. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.135.98\|172.69.135.98]] 04:48, 5 August 2020 (UTC)

	As a programmer you put a * before a variable to make a pointer to the variable's location. I thought that was where the convention came from.		As a programmer you put a * before a variable to make a pointer to the variable's location. I thought that was where the convention came from.

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	Why don't people use carets anymore?		Why don't people use carets anymore?
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		+	As a programmer you put a * before a variable to make a pointer to the variable's location. I thought that was where the convention came from.

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	:@WhoCaresAboutMyNameh I like trying to make witchcraft "as hard as possible." I'd love to meet up, maybe in a few days? Next week is looking pretty empty.		:@WhoCaresAboutMyNameh I like trying to make witchcraft "as hard as possible." I'd love to meet up, maybe in a few days? Next week is looking pretty empty.
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		+	That's not even how asterisks work, you're supposed to put it at the END* of a word and then the footnote goes at the bottom.
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		+	<nowiki>*</nowiki>like this.
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		+	Why don't people use carets anymore?

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	:Really, the sentence about riding a horse isn't required for the corrections to have meaning. I showed the corrections without the horse sentence to a group of people, and they still saw the joke. There is enough content in the corrections alone for a human to form a sentence.[[Special:Contributions/162.158.7.97\|162.158.7.97]] 21:33, 27 July 2020 (UTC)		:Really, the sentence about riding a horse isn't required for the corrections to have meaning. I showed the corrections without the horse sentence to a group of people, and they still saw the joke. There is enough content in the corrections alone for a human to form a sentence.[[Special:Contributions/162.158.7.97\|162.158.7.97]] 21:33, 27 July 2020 (UTC)
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		+	:@WhoCaresAboutMyNameh I like trying to make witchcraft "as hard as possible." I'd love to meet up, maybe in a few days? Next week is looking pretty empty.

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	::Sometimes, cunning linguists can blow your mind! [[Special:Contributions/162.158.159.66\|162.158.159.66]] 14:04, 27 July 2020 (UTC)		::Sometimes, cunning linguists can blow your mind! [[Special:Contributions/162.158.159.66\|162.158.159.66]] 14:04, 27 July 2020 (UTC)

−	:~~Far as I can tell~~, the sentence about riding a horse isn't required for the corrections to have meaning. I showed the corrections without the horse sentence to a group of people, and they still saw the joke. There is enough content in the corrections alone for a human to form a sentence.	+	:Really, the sentence about riding a horse isn't required for the corrections to have meaning. I showed the corrections without the horse sentence to a group of people, and they still saw the joke. There is enough content in the corrections alone for a human to form a sentence.[[Special:Contributions/162.158.7.97\|162.158.7.97]] 21:33, 27 July 2020 (UTC)