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[–] foggy@lemmy.world 187 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Why did they use a pipe instead of the letter I?

| Don't like it.

[–] BeefPiano@lemmy.world 76 points 2 days ago

|’m glad |’m not the only one annoyed by that.

[–] donuts@lemmy.world 41 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Because you would start talking about it

[–] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 26 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Yeah one of the fist ways I learned to create engagement was to fake typos / make simple grammer mistakes.

[–] late_night@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Thanks.. I... I love you <3

[–] stebo02@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago
[–] FQQD@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 6 points 1 day ago

It really helps with engagement, and | fell for it.

[–] Halosheep@lemm.ee 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I didn't realize that was supposed to be an I, | thought it was being used like asterisks to indicate action.

[–] witchybitchy@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

that's what I think it's supposed to be, but then the middle one is missing the | so who knows

[–] bus_factor@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's not meant to be an I, it's meant to be an action. They're not writing "I commanded an army", they're writing "commanded an army".

No, it was not a good choice. But that's what they were probably doing.

[–] hikaru755@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Then it would've been "against her brother" though, not "against my brother"

[–] HurlingDurling@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

The historians had to lay that pipe somewhere

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

Honestly, my brain just didn't even process it as an I. I just looked over it and started the sentences without them.

Anyway, why the fuck did they do that?