It’s the thing where similar-looking letters are taken from other alphabets to make fancy looking letters. The not-O there is a Greek letter, for example, specifically I think it’s lowercase Sigma.
Ironically, given Yog is a Russophone and people do this with Cyrillic all the time, much to the chagrin of those who can read Cyrillic.
A very mean, and sometimes fun, trick to play on others in a collaborative programming environment is to randomly replace semicolons with Greek question marks and watch them slowly descend into madness during debugging.
Is that how you read it? In my head their username is “Yog-… Is that even an o? y- ahhh fuck it, the cosmonaut”
I thought they were letters from another alphabet or something, had no idea they were just another font.
It’s the thing where similar-looking letters are taken from other alphabets to make fancy looking letters. The not-O there is a Greek letter, for example, specifically I think it’s lowercase Sigma.
Ironically, given Yog is a Russophone and people do this with Cyrillic all the time, much to the chagrin of those who can read Cyrillic.
A very mean, and sometimes fun, trick to play on others in a collaborative programming environment is to randomly replace semicolons with Greek question marks and watch them slowly descend into madness during debugging.
Captcha: Type these letters (and its just ones, capital I’s and lowercase l’s in that font where they all look the same)
As a person with a math degree (meaning that I’m an expert on the Greek alphabet), I confirm, that is lowercase sigma.
i just go by the avatars for pretty much any user who has one lol
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