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Fox news trying to explain github.

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    Because trashy people never saw Austin Powers and updated their use of quotation marks to denote sarcasm.

    Quotation marks were historically used to add emphasis to text, the way asterisks are used today. Old people who refuse to change and don't realize their way of writing is actively making fun of themselves still use them this way. These are also the people who watch Fox.

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    Scare quotes are used informally, but it's not proper usage like a "news" channel should be doing. Which, fair enough, it's Fox "News." But it's already larger text and all caps - why is more emphasis necessary?

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      Dafuq is an e-note.

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      When you're on the information superhighway, in cyberspace, sometimes you want to send someone some information (datums). Sometimes an electronic mail is too formal or cumbersome for that, so you instead send them digital text messages, basically cybernetic telegrams, called e-notes.

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        Part of me is bothered by those explanations, but if I had to explain GitHub to a tech illiterate grandparent with that much screen space I don't know if I would do much better.

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        Repository: a collection of related computer code, like related files in a filing cabinet

        Fork: a copy of a repository at a certain point in time, like a fork in the road, they diverge from that point

        Pull request: a request that a repository owner incorporate your changes into their files.

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        • merc@sh.itjust.worksM [email protected]

          When you're on the information superhighway, in cyberspace, sometimes you want to send someone some information (datums). Sometimes an electronic mail is too formal or cumbersome for that, so you instead send them digital text messages, basically cybernetic telegrams, called e-notes.

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          This comment has too many high syllable words in it. Could you please condense this down into an e-note?

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            This comment has too many high syllable words in it. Could you please condense this down into an e-note?

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            e-note be like telegram memorandum memo but not on paper, on computer magic blinky box.

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            • irelephant@programming.devI [email protected]

              This screenshot is old (at least 12 years).

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              Yeah this is about the comprehension level I'd expect from a typical Comm major lol.

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                Good news! It's a suppository.

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                sopposotory

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                • irelephant@programming.devI [email protected]

                  This screenshot is old (at least 12 years).

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                  Enjoy

                  LOL

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                    Good news! It's a suppository.

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                    The suppository of all knowledge

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                      sopposotory

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                      Sopposotoro

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                        Sopposotoro

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                        Soppozuuuuuuuuuu !!!

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                          Quotation marks we're historically used ...

                          Meh. I am in my late sixties, and that was never proper usage. These people were merely always illiterate.

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                          It's valid usage if you go waaay back, i.e. centuries. You also see it in some late 19th/early 20th century newsprint and ads.

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                            This screenshot is old (at least 12 years).

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                            Here's the full video.

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