why backtiks for a word?

[zeal]

On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 6:29 PM, Mulyadi Santosa
<mulyadi.santosa at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 07:49, zeal <zealcook at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi list,
>>
>> We often see that `a word what you like'. But i get confused on it.
>> Why is it `word' but not 'word' or what else?
>
> in which context do you ask above? bash? C? else? or something
> unrelated to programming?
>

Hmm, not in bash. In some documents, or comments in the source code.
eg. I love `linux'. A reverse quotation (`) and a quotation (').


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Cheers

- zeal