Need quickie help
 

what are the definitions of these symbols

>

"

:

;

I know I should know them but i'm drawing a complete f-ing blank but need to know

In what context?

Quickie help? Avoid the bedroom - think more "walk in closet" or "bathroom vanity". Pick a somewhat uncomfortable position to increase the urgency.

People have been using automobile backseats for a couple of generations, too. That seems to work in a pinch.

Edit: Or just have kids. Once you have kids, all you have time for is quickies.

> is greater than

" is double quotes

: is a colon

; is a semicolon

Is this a joke?

I wondered that too, although I thought the question might actually be in terms of the meaning of them as emoticons/chatspeak/netspeak/whatever.

I'm somewhat curious to see what the actually intent of the question was.

no , not a joke.. last night my mother, who lives in Poland emailed me this list and wanted to know what they were.and needed them ASAP. I knew the other 50 or so but drew a complete absolute blank with these. Yeah , its embarrasing but I dont give a flying fuck.

This was needed for a class on pronounciation and no one there knew what the correct form was. Once my brain freeze was over and I knew what they were it was easy for me to give the definition and to phonetically write out the sounding of each. So you did a good thing.. Nothing neferious or meant as a joke in this.. Just some old people trying to learn and understand English.

Um " is just a quotation mark, I'm not sure it's referenced as "double" quotes.

(edit) I see it referenced as such now.

oops...just glanced at the "need quickie" part and was curious. carry on.

Actually looked at her original and her double quotation symbol is lower case .. Weird Euro keyboard I guess

This might help you.
Quotation mark - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Also > is a bracket.

And to get real specific, angle brackets, diamond brackets or chevrons:

I'm going to start using these in my everyday writing.

asterism ( ⁂ )
index/fist ( ☞ )
therefore sign ( ∴ )
because sign ( ∵ )
interrobang ( ‽ )
irony mark ( ⸮ )
lozenge ( ◊ )
reference mark ( ※ )

therefore sign ( ∴ )

I use this one in math class all the time.

My 6th grade algebra teacher used this sign quite a bit.