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If a person from 1700 asked you your job, would they understand your answer, and if not, how would you explain it to them? (lemm.ee)

submitted 8 months ago by JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] scorpionix@feddit.de 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Here, you lost something: \

[–] Zerlyna@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Bizzare it’s there on my end. Glitch in the Matrix?

[–] boatswain@infosec.pub 9 points 8 months ago

No, that's an escape character. You have to double up on it for it to show up.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

To be doubly clear, if you want to use a special character literally instead of figuratively, you can add a \. That's an escape character. This includes \ itself, which if you look at the source on this comment you can see I'm typing twice.

Another example: *not italicised*, which I write \*not italicised\*, so it doesn't just come out not italicised.