Klassische selbsterfüllende Prophezeiung: Heute lohnt es sich nicht, die Spülmaschine laufen zu lassen.
orbisclaudiae Was wollen Männer in Mazdasportwagen sagen?
"Ich habe zwar 'nen kleinen Penis,aber er ist nicht sooo klein,dass ich einen Porsche bräuchte"?
_komakelle_ Satan im Swingerclub: Der Teufel trägt Nada
Thanks to @janburse for the great pointer. transbay.net/~enf/ascii/asc… - see pp. 9, 22-23 for the genesis of the grave accent code point.
And thanks to this historical accident, "backquotes" (`) were available and acquired all kinds of special meanings in programming languages.
So ` is in ASCII but not ´ because ' stood for the latter when combining, i.e. following backspace. Similarly, " could stand for ¨.
janburse @texttheater In October 29-31, 1963 it replaced the left-arrow. cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/lati…