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loss rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

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[-] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 106 points 2 weeks ago

Wait it's all punctuation???

~~:.|:;~~

Ohh my god

[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago

Oh I’m stealing that

[-] kittenzrulz123 83 points 2 weeks ago

[-] lobo@lemmy.world 32 points 2 weeks ago

Listen here you little shit

[-] kittenzrulz123 11 points 1 week ago

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[-] cm0002@lemmy.world 53 points 2 weeks ago

I read it as "I'm at a loss for words." right off the bat before I even realized what it was.

Clearly I have ascended to a higher plane of meme-istance

[-] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Congratulations, you are now allergic to grass.

[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 45 points 2 weeks ago

~~:.|:;~~

Outstanding work, I will be using this

[-] NateNate60@lemmy.world 32 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

"first and only Kanji".

If English had other logograms, I 🤔 what they'd be?

[-] sepiroth154@feddit.nl 20 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

🤔💡😒

©️®️™️

[-] thawed_caveman@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

(.)(.)

[-] camr_on@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

🅱️

[-] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 weeks ago

8==>~

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[-] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 30 points 2 weeks ago

Technically kanji refers to the Japanese writing system, loss is a logogram, English already has them (see $ and @)

[-] redundantgrouch@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 week ago

My bank won't let me see any $.

[-] Enkrod@feddit.org 27 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

which works better?

[-] Wade@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

I'd say the first looks closest to a real glyph

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[-] AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 25 points 2 weeks ago

~~:.|:;~~ HOLY SHIT

[-] FlihpFlorp@lemm.ee 20 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

~~:.|:;~~

I can be trusted with this

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[-] praise_idleness@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 weeks ago

Can anyone explain to me?

[-] steventhedev@lemmy.world 28 points 2 weeks ago

It's Loss

[-] praise_idleness@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 weeks ago

Thank you.

[-] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 9 points 2 weeks ago

You're at a loss?

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[-] thawed_caveman@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Can't believe the ~~:.|:;~~ is still being felt all these years alter

[-] Endmaker@ani.social 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

~~:.|:;~~

Edit: cool

[-] dojan@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago

Well, no. It wouldn't be the first kanji of English. Kanji is the Japanese pronunciation of 漢字 (hanzi), where 漢 means han/China and 字 means character/letter. Ergo, it makes no sense to call it "the English language's first and only Chinese character."

If you need to use a Japanese word to describe this, then 絵文字 (e mo ji; picture, character/symbol) fits better, but we already have several words for that, like pictogram or pictograph. One could argue that smileys fall into this category as well. So perhaps it's a smiley.

[-] Kit 9 points 2 weeks ago

I bet you're fun at parties

[-] nightofmichelinstars@sopuli.xyz 13 points 2 weeks ago

Learning random cool stuff like this is part of why I like lemmy, and why I used to like reddit. Please don't shut down constructive contributions with low effort snark. And before you use your line on me, if I were fun at parties, I would get off lemmy and go to parties.

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[-] ToastedPlanet 12 points 2 weeks ago

~~:.|:;~~

Thanks for the instructions. Have a high five followed by a fist bump.

~~! !|!!~~

And this one of a nuclear bomb exploding. Followed by a person being hit by the shock wave.

https://www.upsidedowntext.com/unicode

~~⅋|T~~

[-] Dave2 11 points 2 weeks ago

~~:.|:;~~

[-] Dave2 9 points 2 weeks ago

Holy shit

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[-] wetnoodle@sopuli.xyz 10 points 2 weeks ago

:̶.̶|̶:̶;̶

[-] lolola 10 points 2 weeks ago

There's even a proper stroke order

[-] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

The hero has read a most unsettling passage

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[-] bownage@beehaw.org 9 points 2 weeks ago

~~:.|:;~~

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[-] BKXcY86CHs2k8Coz@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 weeks ago

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[-] 10_0@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 weeks ago

~~:.|:;~~

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[-] lucyka@lemm.ee 8 points 2 weeks ago

~~:.|:;~~

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[-] uriel238 7 points 1 week ago

Loss is the new triforce

[-] Zoop@beehaw.org 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

That's exactly what I was just thinking! Lemmy's formatting doesn't work the same way, so it doesn't work correctly here. I think this is the best I can get it, lol.