Bruh

[Kalliel]

So after around a million words into writing, I've just realized that I always typed double ['] instead of a normal ["] for dialogues.

This is a certified bruh moment.

 

[RepresentingWrath]

I think either word or google doc has a function that replaces certain words or symbols, but I am not sure.

 

[AnonUnlimited]

I think either word or google doc has a function that replaces certain words or symbols, but I am not sure.

You're a bruhdere.

 

[LoneQuack]

Bruh...

 

[LesserCodex]

this... is a joke right? it's on the keyboard above the number 2... bruh you can't be for real.

 

[2wordsperminute]

this... is a joke right? it's on the keyboard above the number 2... bruh you can be for real.

Bad keyboard layout detected.

 

[TheKillingAlice]

So after around a million words into writing, I've just realized that I always typed double ['] instead of a normal ["] for dialogues.

This is a certified bruh moment.

How? Just... how?

 

[CharlesEBrown]

So after around a million words into writing, I've just realized that I always typed double ['] instead of a normal ["] for dialogues.

This is a certified bruh moment.

That was the British or Canadian standard for part of the 20th century, and can be a style choice.

 

[tiaf]

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and no grammar checker marked it wrong for you? I use grammarly exactly for wrong punctuation and it even marked a wrong ["] for me. (There are different ones for the opening and closing of a dialogue, and I used a closing for start and end.)

 

[Nolff]

this... is a joke right? it's on the keyboard above the number 2... bruh you can't be for real.

What kind of psychopath would put a quotation key above the number key 2???

 

[tiaf]

What kind of psychopath would put a quotation key above the number key 2???

QWERTZ

There are additonal ÖÄÜ keys so the number keys got different configuration from QWERTY folk.

 

[Nolff]

QWERTZ

There are additonal ÖÄÜ keys so the number keys got different configuration from QWERTY folk.

QWERTZ- Okay, what the fu-
I've just done a quick 2-mins google research, and that looks f*cked up.

At least the WASD isn't changed. Thank god.

 

[John_Owl]

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and no grammar checker marked it wrong for you? I use grammarly exactly for wrong punctuation and it even marked a wrong ["] for me. (There are different ones for the opening and closing of a dialogue, and I used a closing for start and end.)

My keyboard only has " which is straight. I know they're supposed to 'support' the dialogue, so you'd have open and close quotation marks, but every keyboard I have ever owned only has the standard "down" quotes, rather than different keys for open and close. occasionally, I'll find a word processor that automatically chooses. But grammarly never marks my quotes wrong. it has helped immensely with my overuse of commas. I find I use them far less often in all of my writing. It used to just be an extra keystroke I'd throw in whenever my brain needed a moment to catch up to my fingers.

 

[LilRora]

I think either word or google doc has a function that replaces certain words or symbols, but I am not sure.

Both have that, iirc. It's built into virtually all newer editors, not only text editors but also code editors, sheets, and more, usually integrated into ctrl+F functionality.

 

[tiaf]

QWERTZ- Okay, what the fu-
I've just done a quick 2-mins google research, and that looks f*cked up.

At least the WASD isn't changed. Thank god.

I think QWERTY is extremely strange, but that's just unfamilarity. Different language, different needs.

My keyboard only has " which is straight. I know they're supposed to 'support' the dialogue, so you'd have open and close quotation marks, but every keyboard I have ever owned only has the standard "down" quotes, rather than different keys for open and close. occasionally, I'll find a word processor that automatically chooses. But grammarly never marks my quotes wrong. it has helped immensely with my overuse of commas. I find I use them far less often in all of my writing. It used to just be an extra keystroke I'd throw in whenever my brain needed a moment to catch up to my fingers.

It's not a keyboard thing, but the program I used or more like a lot of editing that included shifting/deleting of text before/after/in-between the dialogue. Depends also on fonts I think? Some fonts make it more obvious than others.

I think either word or google doc has a function that replaces certain words or symbols, but I am not sure.

Thinking about it, it may take a looong while to use that in a file of million words (even longer if the chapters are divided into different files.)

?️? *lit a candle for OP*

 

[Nolff]

I think QWERTY is extremely strange, but that's just unfamilarity. Different language, different needs.


It's not a keyboard thing, but the program I used or more like a lot of editing that included shifting/deleting of text before/after/in-between the dialogue. Depends also on fonts I think? Some fonts make it more obvious than others.


Thinking about it, it may take a looong while to use that in a file of million words (even longer if the chapters are divided into different files.)

?️? *lit a candle for OP*

We do agree that WASD should stay as WASD though.

Cheers for games?

 

[CharlesEBrown]

Thinking about it, it may take a looong while to use that in a file of million words (even longer if the chapters are divided into different files.)

?️? *lit a candle for OP*

The BIG problem is one I found out the hard way years ago - unless you use the exact ASCII code for each of the six symbols (open, close and "straight" ' and "), the Find/Replace feature does not differentiate. So it may only pick up one sort and change it but miss all the rest, or it may make every ' a ", which plays havoc with contractions. It really is a dangerous thing with symbols.

Heck, find/replace can even cause amusing problems in long documents if you aren't careful - one of the rulebooks for a game called Champions had an editor decide that the abbreviation for "Characteristics" should be changed from the "CHA" in the draft to "CHAR " in the final document... they were careful enough not to force case, but for one whole chapter EVERY occurrence of those three characters was changed... So "character" became "char racter" and, most amusingly, "Champions" became "Char mpions" ... and nobody noticed until it went to press...

 

[Deleted member 166076]

You can use the find and replace feature and manually accept the changes on a word document. Should make it easy enough to fix the problem in mere minutes.

 

[CharlesEBrown]

You can use the find and replace feature and manually accept the changes on a word document. Should make it easy enough to fix the problem in mere minutes.

I believed that until I had to break out of it and undo changes after losing track of some in a document once... It's easy if you keep it in small files but not if you have one long document.

 

[Kalliel]

You can use the find and replace feature and manually accept the changes on a word document. Should make it easy enough to fix the problem in mere minutes.

I ain't gonna log into five-six hundred chapters to fix the one mistake not a single of my reader nor Grammarly notices. And I'm doing it with double ['] from now on. Sue me.

How? Just... how?

Simple logic. One plus one equals two, so ['] + ['] equals ["].

Again, simple logic, doesn't mean it's correct.