/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>10266180
But I am.

Read the original ASCII specification. It has nothing to do with fonts or how people drew glyphs as Mr mgk25 seems to imply. Granted many developers drew them this way, but it was because it was more aesthetically-pleasing.
ASCII only had seven bits to work with so some characters carried multiple meanings. I never see people complain when - is used as both a hyphen and a minus, or when people use it in place of the Unicode hyphen/minus/dash characters.
` was defined as both LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK and GRAVE ACCENT. `This' and ``This'' are the proper quoting methods in ASCII. They pre-date TEX and /prog/ and wherever else you may have seen them crop up. Typing 'this' is equivalent to using parentheses )like this) instead of (like this). If you're so obsessed with symmetry, use the Unicode quote characters (・and ・ ・and ・. Don't do 'this' then preach me to me when I use characters correctly.

Attached image is from the original ASCII specification. Here are some famous computer scientists using ``faggot quotes'':

http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/cacm.html
http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/robotandbaby/robotandbaby.html
http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/faq.html

>>10174527
It's ``'', and it's not a meme, much less a neo-4chan one.

>>10152781
How is proper use of ASCII quotation marks related to post quality?

>>10061190

>>9983860
Permanent MMO generals belong in /vg/, not here.

By the way, I don't understand why you think I'm misusing quotation marks.

>>8938047
The problem is that “ and ” don't exist in ASCII. They only had seven bits to work with, so some characters had to be omitted or combined. Even now they are awkward to type. For example, people often use - as a hyphen, a minus sign, or even a dash (usually in the form --) because ‐, −, — and – are all awkward as hell to type.