Talk:2954: Bracket Symbols - Revision history

Jkshapiro: Adding support for...someone who might be Stephen Greenfield

2025-07-01T19:01:12Z

Adding support for...someone who might be Stephen Greenfield

FaviFake: spam

2025-06-12T13:07:37Z

spam

ExplainEuge.ca at 07:01, 12 June 2025

2025-06-12T07:01:47Z

172.69.195.55: Undo revision 346787 by 172.70.85.153 (talk) Undo to take out the two errors in the last edit, and revised reinstatement of what was clearly supposed to be posted...

2024-07-20T21:51:45Z

Undo revision 346787 by 172.70.85.153 (talk) Undo to take out the two errors in the last edit, and revised reinstatement of what was clearly *supposed* to be posted...

172.70.85.153 at 17:48, 20 July 2024

2024-07-20T17:48:18Z

172.70.160.248: Superfluous subheadery

2024-07-08T08:51:38Z

Superfluous subheadery

172.71.210.81: Clarify

2024-07-07T11:17:05Z

Clarify

172.71.210.81: Discussion

2024-07-07T11:16:16Z

Discussion

172.70.86.16: Presumed unnoticed keyboarding error (given the edit that caused it being a quick "add the forgotten signature" to something further down the discussion page...)

2024-07-06T11:04:06Z

Presumed unnoticed keyboarding error (given the edit that caused it being a quick "add the forgotten signature" to something further down the discussion page...)

172.70.91.96 at 22:52, 5 July 2024

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 As the only person to get an Academy Technical Achievement Award for inventing screenplay text formatting (and a produced screenwriter in the WGAw), I’m here to let you know square brackets are NOT used in screenplays, teleplays, or stage plays to denote stage direction. Square brackets aren’t used for ANYTHING in those script forms. This should be corrected (by someone more conversant with edits) to indicate that normal parenthesis are used in screenplay or teleplays to indicate stage direction associated with specific passages of dialog. These are typically called “parenthetical action” or “parenthetical.”  Some stage play formats omit parenthetical action but place parentheses around passages of stage action. But NEVER square brackets. {{unsigned|SMGxkcd|13:11, 5 July 2024}}
 :Per this unsigned comment, I've made the requested move from square brackets to parentheses. I don't know if this is correct or not, so maybe additional discussion could confirm or refute this claim. [[User:Ianrbibtitlht|Ianrbibtitlht]] ([[User talk:Ianrbibtitlht|talk]]) 13:34, 5 July 2024 (UTC)
 Should we start up an Animorphs category now?  It's been referenced a few times now, [[1380]], [[1817]], and also in [[1187]] and [[1360]].  [[User:Fephisto|Fephisto]] ([[User talk:Fephisto|talk]]) 14:00, 5 July 2024 (UTC)

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	The explanation for the last item should probably reference the book ''Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'' by Hunter S. Thompson, as that is the source of the quote in the film. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.85.153\|172.70.85.153]] 17:48, 20 July 2024 (UTC)		The explanation for the last item should probably reference the book ''Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'' by Hunter S. Thompson, as that is the source of the quote in the film. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.85.153\|172.70.85.153]] 17:48, 20 July 2024 (UTC)
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−	~~Euge.ca comic 41 is a similar comic that compares emoticons. [[User:ExplainEuge.ca\|ExplainEuge.ca]] ([[User talk:ExplainEuge.ca\|talk]]) 07:01, 12 June 2025 (UTC)~~

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	The explanation for the last item should probably reference the book ''Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'' by Hunter S. Thompson, as that is the source of the quote in the film. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.85.153\|172.70.85.153]] 17:48, 20 July 2024 (UTC)		The explanation for the last item should probably reference the book ''Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'' by Hunter S. Thompson, as that is the source of the quote in the film. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.85.153\|172.70.85.153]] 17:48, 20 July 2024 (UTC)
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		+	Euge.ca comic 41 is a similar comic that compares emoticons. [[User:ExplainEuge.ca\|ExplainEuge.ca]] ([[User talk:ExplainEuge.ca\|talk]]) 07:01, 12 June 2025 (UTC)

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---[[Special:Contributions/172.70.85.153|172.70.85.153]] 17:48, 20 July 2024 (UTC)<!--Please sign your posts with ~~~~ and don't delete this text. New comments should be added at the bottom.-->
+<!--Please sign your posts with ~~~~ and don't delete this text. New comments should be added at the bottom.-->
 ummm.  How does editing this stuff work.  Is this HTML?  Why can't we have a gooey?  Also, I only sort of get this comic, but it's not that funny.
 <marquee behavior="scroll" direction="up">Here is some scrolling text... going up!</marquee>
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 :It's [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-32883893 basically untrue], of course. The difference might be that in Britain 'cosmetic' dentistry isn't as prioritised as actually keeping them healthy.
 :It doesn't go into it there, but the thing about a third of people "not having any natural teeth" in thr 1970s might actually have been a side-effect of prior eras dental care, where the opportunity to have all your teeth taken out ''to avoid problems in the future''. Often arranged as a wedding present to newlyweds. So you had generations of adults (young to old) now using dentures (which either look better than 'natural' teeth or aren't made well enough). With the rise of the NHS (which initially got overwhelmed with people getting their traditional whole-mouth-removals 'free'), things changed so that it wasn't a ''luxury'' to get dental care, though it did become far less 'free at the point of need' than most other elements of healthcare (both as reaction against the initial overwhelming of the post-war services and from 'tweaking' (often by the usual political suspects) by one government or another).
-:Right now, there are minor crises in 'dentst deserts' (the availability of NHS dentists being sparse for some regions, for various reasons), but ''if'' you are happily registered with a practice then you're probably as Ok as your own personal approach to dental hygiene allows you to be. And if you can (and want to) pay, then fill your boots with 'Turkey Teeth', whitening, straightening, etc, to make the "actually pretty ok" mouth whatever you think is 'perfection'. (Which often ends up giving you more of a 'plastic fake dentures' look than anything else.)
+:Right now, there are minor crises in 'dentist deserts' (the availability of NHS dentists being sparse for some regions, for various reasons), but ''if'' you are happily registered with a practice then you're probably as Ok as your own personal approach to dental hygiene allows you to be. And if you can (and want to) pay, then fill your boots with 'Turkey Teeth', whitening, straightening, etc, to make the "actually pretty ok" mouth whatever you think is 'perfection'. (Which often ends up giving you more of a 'plastic fake dentures' look than anything else.)
 :I mean, not funny, but possibly educational. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.91.96|172.70.91.96]] 22:52, 5 July 2024 (UTC)
 Bad encoding. My firefox shows the title text as <code>â€™"â€˜â€â€™</code> (on the original website, not here). [[Special:Contributions/172.71.210.81|172.71.210.81]] 11:16, 7 July 2024 (UTC)
+The explanation for the last item should probably reference the book ''Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'' by Hunter S. Thompson, as that is the source of the quote in the film. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.85.153|172.70.85.153]] 17:48, 20 July 2024 (UTC)

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-<!--Please sign your posts with ~~~~ and don't delete this text. New comments should be added at the bottom.-->
+--[[Special:Contributions/172.70.85.153|172.70.85.153]] 17:48, 20 July 2024 (UTC)<!--Please sign your posts with ~~~~ and don't delete this text. New comments should be added at the bottom.-->
 ummm.  How does editing this stuff work.  Is this HTML?  Why can't we have a gooey?  Also, I only sort of get this comic, but it's not that funny.
 <marquee behavior="scroll" direction="up">Here is some scrolling text... going up!</marquee>
@@ Line 62: / Line 62: @@
 :It's [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-32883893 basically untrue], of course. The difference might be that in Britain 'cosmetic' dentistry isn't as prioritised as actually keeping them healthy.
 :It doesn't go into it there, but the thing about a third of people "not having any natural teeth" in thr 1970s might actually have been a side-effect of prior eras dental care, where the opportunity to have all your teeth taken out ''to avoid problems in the future''. Often arranged as a wedding present to newlyweds. So you had generations of adults (young to old) now using dentures (which either look better than 'natural' teeth or aren't made well enough). With the rise of the NHS (which initially got overwhelmed with people getting their traditional whole-mouth-removals 'free'), things changed so that it wasn't a ''luxury'' to get dental care, though it did become far less 'free at the point of need' than most other elements of healthcare (both as reaction against the initial overwhelming of the post-war services and from 'tweaking' (often by the usual political suspects) by one government or another).
-:Right now, there are minor crises in 'dentist deserts' (the availability of NHS dentists being sparse for some regions, for various reasons), but ''if'' you are happily registered with a practice then you're probably as Ok as your own personal approach to dental hygiene allows you to be. And if you can (and want to) pay, then fill your boots with 'Turkey Teeth', whitening, straightening, etc, to make the "actually pretty ok" mouth whatever you think is 'perfection'. (Which often ends up giving you more of a 'plastic fake dentures' look than anything else.)
+:Right now, there are minor crises in 'dentst deserts' (the availability of NHS dentists being sparse for some regions, for various reasons), but ''if'' you are happily registered with a practice then you're probably as Ok as your own personal approach to dental hygiene allows you to be. And if you can (and want to) pay, then fill your boots with 'Turkey Teeth', whitening, straightening, etc, to make the "actually pretty ok" mouth whatever you think is 'perfection'. (Which often ends up giving you more of a 'plastic fake dentures' look than anything else.)
 :I mean, not funny, but possibly educational. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.91.96|172.70.91.96]] 22:52, 5 July 2024 (UTC)
 Bad encoding. My firefox shows the title text as <code>â€™"â€˜â€â€™</code> (on the original website, not here). [[Special:Contributions/172.71.210.81|172.71.210.81]] 11:16, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

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 '''"~~ I'm being sarcastic and..."''' The symbol ≈ means approximately equal to. This is much used in some engineering writing. "Output level should be ≈1 Volt." In casual work this may be approximated as "~", or "~~" which is less liable to be confused for a negative sign. {{unsigned|PRR|04:02(+:03), 5 July 2024}}
 :It can also be used for such as "~240V", AC power supply, and I use tildes an awful lot in Perl for both regexp operations and bitwise negation (though I also like it as a nicely distinctive choice of delimiter character for joined/split data transportation, at times) . As to the comic text, I sort of associate it with the 'decorated' usernames (akin to Dwarf Fortress 'item quality modifiers', but of course not inspired by such, not sure if they inspired it) along the lines of <code>.~·«wIeRdLyReNdErEdNaMe»·~.</code> [[Special:Contributions/172.70.91.158|172.70.91.158]] 10:21, 5 July 2024 (UTC)
 As the only person to get an Academy Technical Achievement Award for inventing screenplay text formatting (and a produced screenwriter in the WGAw), I’m here to let you know square brackets are NOT used in screenplays, teleplays, or stage plays to denote stage direction. Square brackets aren’t used for ANYTHING in those script forms. This should be corrected (by someone more conversant with edits) to indicate that normal parenthesis are used in screenplay or teleplays to indicate stage direction associated with specific passages of dialog. These are typically called “parenthetical action” or “parenthetical.”  Some stage play formats omit parenthetical action but place parentheses around passages of stage action. But NEVER square brackets. {{unsigned|SMGxkcd|13:11, 5 July 2024}}
 :Per this unsigned comment, I've made the requested move from square brackets to parentheses. I don't know if this is correct or not, so maybe additional discussion could confirm or refute this claim. [[User:Ianrbibtitlht|Ianrbibtitlht]] ([[User talk:Ianrbibtitlht|talk]]) 13:34, 5 July 2024 (UTC)
 Should we start up an Animorphs category now?  It's been referenced a few times now, [[1380]], [[1817]], and also in [[1187]] and [[1360]].  [[User:Fephisto|Fephisto]] ([[User talk:Fephisto|talk]]) 14:00, 5 July 2024 (UTC)
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 :: ('_')b  [[User:Fephisto|Fephisto]] ([[User talk:Fephisto|talk]]) 14:18, 5 July 2024 (UTC)
 Double quotes: "Someone is talking".
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 :Right now, there are minor crises in 'dentist deserts' (the availability of NHS dentists being sparse for some regions, for various reasons), but ''if'' you are happily registered with a practice then you're probably as Ok as your own personal approach to dental hygiene allows you to be. And if you can (and want to) pay, then fill your boots with 'Turkey Teeth', whitening, straightening, etc, to make the "actually pretty ok" mouth whatever you think is 'perfection'. (Which often ends up giving you more of a 'plastic fake dentures' look than anything else.)
 :I mean, not funny, but possibly educational. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.91.96|172.70.91.96]] 22:52, 5 July 2024 (UTC)
 Bad encoding. My firefox shows the title text as <code>â€™"â€˜â€â€™</code> (on the original website, not here). [[Special:Contributions/172.71.210.81|172.71.210.81]] 11:16, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

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	== Encoding issue? ==		== Encoding issue? ==

−	Bad encoding. My firefox shows the title text as <code>â€™"â€˜â€â€™</code>. [[Special:Contributions/172.71.210.81\|172.71.210.81]] 11:16, 7 July 2024 (UTC)	+	Bad encoding. My firefox shows the title text as <code>â€™"â€˜â€â€™</code> (on the original website, not here). [[Special:Contributions/172.71.210.81\|172.71.210.81]] 11:16, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

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	:Right now, there are minor crises in 'dentist deserts' (the availability of NHS dentists being sparse for some regions, for various reasons), but ''if'' you are happily registered with a practice then you're probably as Ok as your own personal approach to dental hygiene allows you to be. And if you can (and want to) pay, then fill your boots with 'Turkey Teeth', whitening, straightening, etc, to make the "actually pretty ok" mouth whatever you think is 'perfection'. (Which often ends up giving you more of a 'plastic fake dentures' look than anything else.)		:Right now, there are minor crises in 'dentist deserts' (the availability of NHS dentists being sparse for some regions, for various reasons), but ''if'' you are happily registered with a practice then you're probably as Ok as your own personal approach to dental hygiene allows you to be. And if you can (and want to) pay, then fill your boots with 'Turkey Teeth', whitening, straightening, etc, to make the "actually pretty ok" mouth whatever you think is 'perfection'. (Which often ends up giving you more of a 'plastic fake dentures' look than anything else.)
	:I mean, not funny, but possibly educational. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.91.96\|172.70.91.96]] 22:52, 5 July 2024 (UTC)		:I mean, not funny, but possibly educational. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.91.96\|172.70.91.96]] 22:52, 5 July 2024 (UTC)
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		+	== Encoding issue? ==
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		+	Bad encoding. My firefox shows the title text as <code>â€™"â€˜â€â€™</code>. [[Special:Contributions/172.71.210.81\|172.71.210.81]] 11:16, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

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	Making fun of British dental hygiene is still common? Or died that out with Brexit?		Making fun of British dental hygiene is still common? Or died that out with Brexit?
	[[Special:Contributions/172.71.99.139\|172.71.99.139]] 20:10, 5 July 2024 (UTC)		[[Special:Contributions/172.71.99.139\|172.71.99.139]] 20:10, 5 July 2024 (UTC)
		+	:It's [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-32883893 basically untrue], of course. The difference might be that in Britain 'cosmetic' dentistry isn't as prioritised as actually keeping them healthy.
		+	:It doesn't go into it there, but the thing about a third of people "not having any natural teeth" in thr 1970s might actually have been a side-effect of prior eras dental care, where the opportunity to have all your teeth taken out ''to avoid problems in the future''. Often arranged as a wedding present to newlyweds. So you had generations of adults (young to old) now using dentures (which either look better than 'natural' teeth or aren't made well enough). With the rise of the NHS (which initially got overwhelmed with people getting their traditional whole-mouth-removals 'free'), things changed so that it wasn't a ''luxury'' to get dental care, though it did become far less 'free at the point of need' than most other elements of healthcare (both as reaction against the initial overwhelming of the post-war services and from 'tweaking' (often by the usual political suspects) by one government or another).
		+	:Right now, there are minor crises in 'dentist deserts' (the availability of NHS dentists being sparse for some regions, for various reasons), but ''if'' you are happily registered with a practice then you're probably as Ok as your own personal approach to dental hygiene allows you to be. And if you can (and want to) pay, then fill your boots with 'Turkey Teeth', whitening, straightening, etc, to make the "actually pretty ok" mouth whatever you think is 'perfection'. (Which often ends up giving you more of a 'plastic fake dentures' look than anything else.)
		+	:I mean, not funny, but possibly educational. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.91.96\|172.70.91.96]] 22:52, 5 July 2024 (UTC)