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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
+ | {{incomplete|Created by a BOT*. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.<sup>†</sup>}} | ||
− | This comic | + | This comic is a reference to the use of asterisks and other symbols for footnotes or endnotes. It humorously indicates that when asterisks appear after words without corresponding footnotes, they are in fact referring to this comic. |
− | + | It offers closure for missing footnotes (not entirely dissimilar to [[391: Anti-Mindvirus]]), and so has an effect opposite of the unmatched parenthesis in [[859: (]]. | |
− | + | Some terms, like {{w|A* search}} and {{w|C* algebra}}, contain asterisks that are not meant to be matched by footnotes. Instead, they are just there as a name, and read out verbally as "star". Programming languages and math use asterisks regularly for various reasons other than footnotes, such as for the multiplication operator. In these cases a single asterisk consequently constitutes no mystery asterisk. | |
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+ | The title text reveals that unmatched instances of † (a dagger; a symbol for a secondary footnote) are threats being made by the author to the reader with a physical dagger. As of this writing, it states "If you ever see the † dagger symbol with no '''''un'''''matched footnote…", forming a double negative. This is likely a typo. A likely reading appears to be “…dagger symbol with no matching footnote…”. | ||
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+ | An asterisk and a dagger next to dates indicates, in German, the date of birth and the date of death of a person {w|Dagger_(mark)#Modern_usage}. In this case both are not meant as footnotemarks. When a dagger is placed following a person's name, it may indicate that this person is deceased. | ||
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