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  • YTG123@sopuli.xyztoScience Memes@mander.xyzNom nom
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    2 months ago

    So why did > ever become greater and < be less than? Doesn’t it also depend on how your text is written? If people reading from right to left or down to up vs left to right and up to down, means it’s reversed.

    Yes. > is “greater than” because you’re reading left-to-right. 12 > 9, read: “twelve is greater than nine”. When reading in a right-to-left script, it’s the opposite, but because of how the BiDi spec works, the same Unicode character is actually used for the same semantic meaning, rather than the appearance. Taking the exact same block of text but formatting it right-to-left (using directional isolate characters) yields “⁧12 > 9⁩”, which is still read as a “greater than”, just from right-to-left.

    Hopefully that makes sense.

    So yes, if you copy the > character and paste in any directional environment, it will retain its meaning of “greater than”.

    Edit: on my phone, the RTL portion is not formatted well. If you can’t see it, try a browser.








  • YTG123@sopuli.xyztoScience Memes@mander.xyzPSA: Libraries
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    7 months ago

    A new public library place recently opened very near to where I live. I’ve nothing to say, am just a bit comforted that when the world is crashing and burning, at least I can be happy about this.

    Also some libraries provide 3D printers which is really cool

    edit: I didn’t notice how many people were commenting about 3D printers



  • YTG123@sopuli.xyztoScience Memes@mander.xyzLinguistics
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    8 months ago

    That has to do with the definition of what a word even is (an open problem!). “Alot” is clearly made up of two separate units, but so is “anyway”. I think a lot of people don’t like this one because it’s simply unnecessary. You need “anyway” to show that the two words are not stressed separately, but treated as one unit, whereas with “a lot” this is already obvious (“a” is almost never stressed).
    Also has to do with English spelling just being bad, generally.