I ask you, what's the point?

Answer 1

there isn't a point to anything....

Answer 2

What is the point of your qestion? to compose a sentance you need a bit more - 'of' perhaps? like 'Hey, what's the point of daylight-savings time?'

unless you want a discription of the saying?

point, as in purpose. as in 'I see little point in discussing this further.'

But to answer your question, the saying, whats the point, refers to a question that is not asked properly. When we mention a typo, that's usually a polite euphemism for an error of spelling or perhaps punctuation - although just because someone happens to key in 'teh' that doesn't necessarily mean that they don't know how to spell 'the'. But to a professional typesetter there is much more to typesetting than spelling and punctuation alone, and there are far more opportunities for making a typographical error (which is what 'typo' is short for).

Until the advent of the word processor (WP), typesetting was a highly skilled job for specialists. But computer typesetting has largely made the old skills, and the people who spent many years acquiring them, redundant. Now the WP program for the personal computer has brought non-experts into contact with the typesetter's arcane terminology.

Many of the terms still in use in the computer age are relics of an era when the Web was not World Wide but meant a roll of paper (or, in papermaking, a wire mesh), and typesetters would have to work with molten lead (or 'hot metal'), silk screens, and other strange processes.

So What's the Point?

The point (abbreviated to 'pt') is simply a measurement - there were originally 72 points to the inch. In the UK a point is 0.351 millimetres, whereas for some reason in continental Europe it is 0.376 mm.

Rather confusingly, in typesetting a point is also another name for a full stop (also known as a full point, or period) or a decimal point.

Font sizes are described in points: the higher the point size, the larger the printed characters. The size of a font is measured from the top of an ascender (eg the vertical line of the letter 'b') to the bottom of a descender (eg the 'tail' of the letter 'p'). In modern English and in most modern fonts, however, there is no single letter that has both an ascender and a descender, so it is not always very easy to measure the point size of a font!

So if a printer ommitted the full stop from a question, he would be asked, what's the point, because the sentance would be incomplete.

Answer 3

2 points

Answer 4

The point of this. the point of life, the point of I could go on and on

Answer 5

Yes this is the six million dollar question I agree it is a bit vague in its point. Perhaps you can get to the chase and let us all into the secret lol.

Answer 6

The point is the begining of a segment. And the segment too.

Answer 7

as much as i read everyday ive never seen anything that dint have more writing with it then i could get out of useing the product ;2so i guess the point is the pensils

Answer 8

Vertices.

Answer 9

There truely isn't one, although everything has a point exept for existance itself.

Answer 10

Who will rid me of this meddlesome priest. What was the point of this statement, who said it and about whom.

Answer 11

The sharp bit on the end!