amelia@feddit.de to Data Is Beautiful@lemmy.mlEnglish · 11 months agoRecently had my first covid infection and decided to put together a little diagram about how it wenti.imgur.comexternal-linkmessage-square61fedilinkarrow-up1536arrow-down118
arrow-up1518arrow-down1external-linkRecently had my first covid infection and decided to put together a little diagram about how it wenti.imgur.comamelia@feddit.de to Data Is Beautiful@lemmy.mlEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square61fedilink
minus-squareamelia@feddit.deOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·11 months agoI think it’s a “Europe minus UK” thing, but I don’t know for sure. Pretty certain though that the French write it like that too.
minus-squareGregorGizehlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·11 months agoMaybe they are confusing it with ^ in your writing and don’t realize you’re just writing a regular 1.
minus-squareCanadian_Cabinet @lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up4·11 months agoI’ve never seen it written that way in Spain nor France, so maybe it’s a Germanic language thing?
minus-squaregaael@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·11 months agoIn France we write it both way and AFAIK there is no “recommanded” or “better” way.
minus-squarecasmael@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down5·11 months agoBut then again the French put speech inside these <<>> which is just inconsiderate imo 🤧
minus-squareCanadian_Cabinet @lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up3·11 months agoFunnily enough we have these in Spanish as well, but we don’t use them for dialogue. For that we use a simple line (— or –). We also refer to « » as comillas españolas or Spanish quotations
I think it’s a “Europe minus UK” thing, but I don’t know for sure. Pretty certain though that the French write it like that too.
Maybe they are confusing it with ^ in your writing and don’t realize you’re just writing a regular 1.
I’ve never seen it written that way in Spain nor France, so maybe it’s a Germanic language thing?
In France we write it both way and AFAIK there is no “recommanded” or “better” way.
But then again the French put speech inside these <<>> which is just inconsiderate imo 🤧
Funnily enough we have these in Spanish as well, but we don’t use them for dialogue. For that we use a simple line (— or –). We also refer to « » as comillas españolas or Spanish quotations