Re: Naes of ASCII Symbols
From Andrew Virnuls <vir...@argonet.co.uk>
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· 11 Jan 1998 00:00 · View full thread
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In article <jdo...@aus-tx22-24.ix.netcom.com>, jdo...@ix.netcom.com (John Doherty) wrote: > | Premise Checker wrote in message <696gls$p0...@clarknet.clark.net>... > | >And why not go through the whole keyboard? > | >! exclamation point > | > | Also called a "bang". (Especially in typesetting, I think. There is a > | character called an "interbang" which is an ! superimposed over a ?, > useful > | for saying things like WHAT?! > > I work for a company that's been setting type for over 40 years, and I'm > the only one who calls an exclamation point "bang." Almost none of my > co-workers ever say things like "pound-bang-slash-bin-slash-ess-aitch," > or "a PostScript file should start 'percent-bang'," and they wouldn't > know what I meant if I said either to them. I think the names depend on the application. Computer scientists refer to the exclamation mark as a "pling". The # sign, for example, is a "sharp" to a musician, a "hash" to a computer programmer, and a "gate" to a telephone engineer. -- A N D R E W vir...@argonet.co.uk Honey traps more flies than vinegar http://www.argonet.co.uk/users/virnuls Fine words butter no parsnips
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 113841,2e58d5f13e65ed35 X-Google-Attributes: gid113841,public X-Google-Thread: f996b,d8ba9ee032dffd44 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-Thread: 102ffd,2e58d5f13e65ed35 X-Google-Attributes: gid102ffd,public From: Andrew Virnuls <vir...@argonet.co.uk> Subject: Re: Naes of ASCII Symbols Date: 1998/01/11 Message-ID: <na....@argonet.co.uk>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 314971641 Distribution: world References: <34A...@ares.informatik.uni-ulm.de> <01bd187e$68352060$LocalHost@atkins> <696gls$p0...@clarknet.clark.net> <O6w...@upnetnews02.moswest.msn.net> <jdo...@aus-tx22-24.ix.netcom.com> Organization: ArgoNet, but does not reflect its views Reply-To: Andrew Virnuls <vir...@argonet.co.uk> Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art,alt.usage.english,alt.english.usage
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