# Markdown ## It's like HTML shorthand - You can make lists - With two items - Wait, **three**! - ...or more You can quote little `code blocks` and even ``` REALLY BIG BLOCKS of code ``` That wasn't code, of course (in any language that I'm aware of [English isn't *code*]). > Apparently, this is a block quote. I'm not making this stuff up. Really! [This place](https://help.github.com/en/articles/basic-writing-and-formatting-syntax) even supports the notion. Here's an image, for fun: 
this is what is *should* look like