Topic: Weird right angle punctuation on keyboard

[Kythia]

Top left of my keyboard.  Shift and the key produces: ¬

What is that for?  Google is no help.  Does it have a name?

[Caeli]

I don't know what the name is, but I've seen Chinese and Japanese texts use that and the closing bracket (which looks like a stunted L) to denote dialogue, similar to the quotation marks used in English.

It may not specifically be those symbols, though - I feel like they were less rectangular and more square. Quotation marks have also become pretty common now, so it doesn't always apply...

Also, it wouldn't make sense for that to be the main usage, since these are English/American keyboards.

[Vekseid]

It's the Negation symbol. Generally specific to logic and some computational stuff.

[Kythia]

Awesome.  Thank you both.

[Caeli]

It's the Negation symbol. Generally specific to logic and some computational stuff.

Very cool.

[Oniya]

Gee, all I got is a tilde.  >_>

[Dim Hon]

It's also handy for pulling "the fuck did you just say" face

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