why backtiks for a word?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Sun, 17 Jul 2011, zeal wrote:

> 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 (').

  there's not much point speculating on what the original poster meant
until he clarifies it.  the connection to the linux kernel here is
still entirely unclear.

rday

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