• TeNppa@sopuli.xyz
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    2 months ago

    When translating to Finnish it’s confusing sometimes:
    Billion = miljardi = 1 000 000 000
    Trillion = biljoona = 1 000 000 000 000
    Quintillion = triljoona = 1 000 000 000 000 000 000
    You can tell how bad a news site is when they translate billion to biljoona and thus making the amount 1000 times higher.

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      2 months ago

      You probably want double new lines in your posts. Or two spaces at the end of your paragraphs but that’s usually a bit annoying to do.

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          So you escape the newline and you get a newline? That’s some black magic voodoo. But hey if it works. Much simpler to handle than double space since you can see them and your phone doesn’t try to make them into period space instead of space space.

          Newlines with double space (or space backslash apparently) also let’s you have newlines in a quote block without exiting the block. I see a lot of people struggle with that on Lemmy. E.g.

          > A quote with multiple lines
          Will eat the the newline 
          
          Or exit if you don't handle the newline
          

          will render as:

          A quote with multiple lines Will eat the the newline

          Or exit if you don’t handle the newline

          So you want to do

          > A quote with multiple lines \
          Will eat the the newline \
          Or exit if you don't handle the newline
          

          A quote with multiple lines
          Will eat the the newline
          Or exit if you don’t handle the newline

          Or add space space at the end instead of space backslash.