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Is there a line from a movie that really resonated with you but when you say it most people don't get the reference? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by aCosmicWave@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Mine is from an early 2000s film called Vanilla Sky.

“The sweet is never as sweet without the sour.”

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[–] LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Im glad to know that arm goes missing here too. Makes me feel right at home.

[–] Mic_Check_One_Two@reddthat.com 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

For those who actually don’t know: MarkDown (the markup language used by Lemmy and Reddit) uses the backslash as a “cancel” command. And it uses the underscores as an italicize command, just like the *asterisks* you’re probably in the habit of using.

For instance, _this_ turns into this. But when I cancel those underscores with a backslash \_like this\_ they appear.

So why does the backslash disappear on the ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ face? For starters, the backslash cancels the underscores around the head. So the underscores show up, but the arm doesn’t. So what if we try two backslashes? Then we get:

¯\(ツ)/¯

The first backslash canceled out the second, but now the underscores are italicizing the head. So let’s try three:

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Now the first backslash is canceling out the second, and the third backslash is canceling out the underscore.

[–] Crackhappy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Haha you're almost ready to start using regex.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

uses the backslash as a “cancel” command

It's called an escape character.

[–] Mic_Check_One_Two@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago

I know. The point is to avoid using jargon. Or at least explain the jargon you do use.