this post was submitted on 01 Feb 2025
571 points (96.4% liked)

Comic Strips

16400 readers
1834 users here now

Comic Strips is a community for those who love comic stories.

The rules are simple:

Web of links

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 
all 30 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] blakenong@lemmings.world 36 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)
[–] hsdkfr734r@feddit.nl 13 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] BennyInc 10 points 3 months ago (4 children)
[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] Albbi@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] superkret 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

public static void main(string[ ] args) { Funny(); }

[–] TheBrideWoreCrimson@sopuli.xyz 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Funny ⸎
Edit: Is it just me, or do the examples of this symbol in writing look nothing like each other, nor like the Unicode symbol they adopted?

[–] JayDee@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I mean, beyond just being a marker denoting the end of a work, it seems like it was the scribe's own little flair - like a visual signature.

I guess it being generified in Unicode is the only real tradeoff you could make.

[–] JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Looking at the examples, I think a signature or watermark is almost definitely the best way I would describe a coronis

[–] Bananigans@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago

Based on the examples this looks acceptable: 🐦

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Two dots is more alarming than 3..

[–] FreshLight@sh.itjust.works 28 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

So.. you're telling me that not everyone's like this?

[–] einkorn 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

There are dozens of us!

[–] Elgenzay@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 months ago
[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm a pedant for spelling and punctuation and I genuinely don't get it.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 28 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The Exclamation makes the theoretical anxious person imagine the other person as excited, but ending with a period makes the anxious person imagine the other person hates them.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 3 months ago

Ok, thanks for helping me understand. I went back and re-read it and that makes sense. Cheers.