`Out Of The Loop’
I see backticks ( ` ) used quite frequently as an opening quotation mark online and in program output, as in “You named it `Carl’ “. Is this some kind of quiet leet development that people don’t talk about but just pick up, like slang?
Tags: backticks, latex, leet, quoting
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January 28th, 2008 at 12:56 pm
LaTeX uses this format, so it’s been around for a while specifically you quote something in LaTeX like “this”, with double quotes. I guess it’s an ascii way to distinguish beginning and end quotes without depending on rich text.
January 28th, 2008 at 1:00 pm
Oh, bizarre. wordpress converted my quotes into smart quotes. So you know, it was two opening back ticks and two closing single quotes.