Oh, and you don't need special syntax to write code to be read aloud, to wit,
Hah! I've been dealing with that for a few years now -- my email is most of my username and spelling it out is fun for neither party.
I've considered getting the shortest, most phonetic-friendly email possible specifically for phone calls; something like [email protected] but also want to self-host. It's a hassle!
Meanwhile, with my main-ish addresses, I've been told that they look like a random jumble of letters or a password. And once I've given one of them over the phone, took ten minutes easily—with confusion as to even how many letters are there.
A family member has [email protected], which is super nice, but unfortunately my name and most variants are taken.
Fun to help someone via phone map a Windows share who doesn't know the difference/'what's a backslash?'
Fun times reading it out!
"WWW" is one of rare acronyms where it's easier to pronounce the full phrase. :)
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/e-mail-addresses-it-woul...
I imagine it would help to make code less indented should the author be required to read their work aloud.
open paren sum open paren tick one two three close paren close parenI like to tell people slash is the one you put in a date.
On my phone at least, the backslash has an clearly and easily accessible shortcut (long press 'w'). Meanwhile, to enter a forward slash, one has to not only tap into the special symbols page, but actually tap again into the SECOND PAGE of that.
Does anyone have any insight as to just what these galaxy brains at Google are thinking?
This is why a friend of mine has the email address "dot at dot at dot at". Yes, that's uniquely parseable back to one valid rfc822 address that works.
I have occasionally wondered about programming language syntax that might take reading aloud into account. Puncutation ends up sounding like Victor Borge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qf_TDuhk3No and of course Python's indentation is very at risk of ambiguity.