Those are speech marks. Or as those who have had code mangled by Word put it '*expletive deleted* special characters'.
Yes it is a Britishism, but rather archaic in use in the motherland. Dr David Martin Senior Lecturer in Bioinformatics College of Life Sciences University of Dundee ________________________________ From: Amy E. Hodge <[email protected]> Sent: 16 March 2018 23:02 To: David Martin (Staff); Rayna Harris Cc: Software Carpentry Discussion Subject: Re: [Discuss] Code Phonology - on reading code aloud Quotes referred to as “inverted commas” – I’m not sure if this applies to both ‘ and “, but I heard it for the first time last fall in South Africa. ~ Amy Amy E. Hodge, PhD Science Data Librarian [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> 650.556.5194 [cid:[email protected]] orcid.org/0000-0002-5902-3077<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5902-3077> Data Management Services Branner Earth Sciences Library, 212 Mitchell 397 Panama Mall; MC 2211 Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305 From: Discuss <[email protected]> on behalf of "David Martin (Staff)" <[email protected]> Date: Friday, March 16, 2018 at 3:46 PM To: Rayna Harris <[email protected]> Cc: Software Carpentry Discussion <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Discuss] Code Phonology - on reading code aloud Add ^ caret, hat, upside down v > greater than, right angle bracket (context dependent) < less than, left angle bracket (context dependent) ' quote " double quote '' double quotes 😊 Dr David Martin Senior Lecturer in Bioinformatics College of Life Sciences University of Dundee ________________________________ From: Rayna Harris <[email protected]> Sent: 16 March 2018 22:32 To: David Martin (Staff) Cc: Madeleine Bonsma; Kevin Vilbig; Software Carpentry Discussion Subject: Re: [Discuss] Code Phonology - on reading code aloud Thanks David! You inspired me to create a table of code phonology<https://github.com/Carpentries-ES/board/blob/96e94a023e52e4213775101e624004dc6e35c228/Convenciones_Traduccion.md#fonolog%C3%ADa-del-c%C3%B3digo---c%C3%B3mo-leerlo-en-voz-alta> for the Spanish Unix and GIt lessons! I got most of the data from this ASCII site<http://www.elcodigoascii.com.ar/> and from the translated lessons themselves. I agree with Madeleine that it would be interesting to see what words our instructors from around the world use. Rayna Rayna Harris @raynamharris<https://twitter.com/raynamharris> http://raynamharris.github.io/ On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 6:41 PM, David Martin (Staff) <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: From an ENglish point of view.. On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 12:14 PM, Kevin Vilbig <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: This issue has been on my mind since teaching my first few classes. Here is a quick lexicon beyond what you mentioned. { } can also be called curly braces curly brackets, braces () parentheses, round brackets [] brackets, square brackets ! can be called bang or exclamation point exclamation mark, pling # can be called crunch, sha, pound, or hash Typically hash \ backslash or backwhack / slack or whack forward slash or divide * star or wildcard or asterisk ~ tilde or that wiggly line next to the one key squiggle (next to RETURN, ENTER in UK) _ underline, underscore - dash, hyphen . full stop, dot ` backtick, no not quote, the other one. And that's only for single characters! What about compound character operators? Perl 6 can even take some unicode symbols as arithmetic operators! On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 10:40 AM, Amy E. Hodge <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: I found this very interesting. I also find that mixtures of cultural backgrounds in the class – or a difference between myself and the learners – can sometimes lead to confusion in the different ways people describe the symbols in particular. I spent the first half day leading a week-long training (not for coding, but for something internal to the company I was working for where there was an internal “language” to be learned) before I realized that while I was describing them as “braces,” “square brackets,” and “parentheses,” my learners described these as “flower brackets,” “square brackets,” and “round brackets,” and the three together under the umbrella of “brackets,” which I only used in reference to the square ones. Learning got much faster after we got that squared away! ~ Amy Amy E. Hodge, PhD Science Data Librarian [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> 650.556.5194<tel:(650)%20556-5194> [cid:[email protected]] orcid.org/0000-0002-5902-3077<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5902-3077> Data Management Services Branner Earth Sciences Library, 212 Mitchell 397 Panama Mall; MC 2211 Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305 From: Discuss <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> on behalf of Lex Nederbragt <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Date: Monday, March 12, 2018 at 2:48 AM To: Software Carpentry Discussion <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: [Discuss] Code Phonology - on reading code aloud Hi, Felienne Hermans has a really interesting blog post and accompanying paper on Code Phonology, i.e. on reading code aloud: http://www.felienne.com/archives/5947. This is relevant for teaching through ‘live follow-along coding’: are we aware what vocabulary we use and what effect that has on our learners (e.g. cognitive load)? Do we use consistent vocabulary across lessons and between workshops? Food for thought... Lex _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> http://lists.software-carpentry.org/listinfo/discuss -- Kevin Vilbig _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> http://lists.software-carpentry.org/listinfo/discuss The University of Dundee is a registered Scottish Charity, No: SC015096 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> http://lists.software-carpentry.org/listinfo/discuss The University of Dundee is a registered Scottish Charity, No: SC015096 The University of Dundee is a registered Scottish Charity, No: SC015096
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