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depths of wikipedia
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February 18, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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International World Standards Day is 14/10 (14 Oct) *
* Except in the US, when World Standards Day is 11/14 (14 Nov)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_S...
This is an ambiguous disambiguation disambiguation page
When the homies show up for a rap battle but leave on a date
[clears throat]
And I'm going to use that word (disambiguation) again in a moment.
well excuuuuuse me for wanting my sloppily-written 7s to not look like my sloppily-written 1s :V
Not to be confused by the norwegian letter ø..
When you step to the left to let someone pass by you, and they step left too 😭
They’d have to step to THEIR right to remain in your way. Both stepping “left” is what you want.
This is part of why Australian Indigenous people use cardinal directions instead. North is north.
Fair, except they can step to your left too, especially if your left in context of perspective is labeled "the" left lol
I want 2 new characters to differentiate slashed-zero and slashed-O from a poorly drawn 8.
And another to differentiate a poorly drawn 8 from a B.
Love the idea of "poorly drawn 8" as the name of the number
Nobody is going to mention the classic Underoath album from my high school time?
And nary a mention of the glorious 27th letter of the Danish alphabet, allowing us such words as økse (axe), øre (ear) and ødelagt (ruined).
Respectively pronounced as:
*being kicked in the stomach while chewing an apple*
*vomiting*
*being kicked in the stomach while smoking*
The Ø is the 28th letter in the Norwegian/Danish alphabet. In Swedish the same letter is written Ö. For the 0 with a slash I have no idea. But if Wikipedia says so…. 😂🤣😂🤣
I'll try and remember that. Could come in useful one day.
IM0 zero has the slash and the slashed ○ is just Norwegian
My friend, you win the internet today!
Well, let's perpetuate needless tribalism - which one's better? I'm team "slash the zero, don't slash the o"
Who even slashes the o? Non-English doesn't count, this reads like there are English-speaking o-slashing maniacs.
In mil comms school they did teach us ways to make handwriting absolutely unambiguous; marking 7s and Zs horizontally in the middle, and slashing zeros. wtf is slashed-o.