Re: Naes of ASCII Symbols
From Jay Random <jra...@shaw.wave.ca>
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· 10 Jan 1998 00:00 · View full thread
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A couple more slangy bits added, some of them from INTERCAL: Larry Phillips wrote: > > I like the slang better > > > ! exclamation point Wow, Bang. > > @ At, Spiral > > # octothorp hash, pound, gridlet mesh, number sign > > $ dollar sign, anything else? > > % percent sign double-oh-seven > > ^ caret, roof hat > > & ampersand AND Even the phenomenally silly authors of INTERCAL couldn't find a sillier name for this character than `ampersand'. > > * asterisk splat, star, rienhold > > ( left parenthesis open > > ) right parenthesis close > > - en dash hyphen, minus, dash, worm (!) > > _ underscore floor, bimmin flatworm (naturally) > > + plus sign > > = equals sign > > | bar > > \ back slash back > > { left brace open curly > > } right brace close curly > > [ left bracket open square > > ] right bracket close square > > ; semicolon hybrid > > : colon two-spot > > ' scare quote, apostrophe single > > " quotation mark double > > , comma twitch > > < left angel bracket less than, open angle angle > > > right angel bracket more than, close angle right angle > > . period dot, point spot (whence `two-spot' for colon) > > / slash. Other name > > ? question mark huh? ques > > ~ tilde squiggle, twiddle And yes, folks, in INTERCAL the character combination <- really was called `angleworm'. I'm reminded of Victor Borge reading punctuation aloud.... alas, a performance that cannot possibly be rendered in the Roman alphabet. --J. Random <-
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,d8ba9ee032dffd44 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-Thread: 113841,2e58d5f13e65ed35 X-Google-Attributes: gid113841,public X-Google-Thread: 102ffd,2e58d5f13e65ed35 X-Google-Attributes: gid102ffd,public From: Jay Random <jra...@shaw.wave.ca> Subject: Re: Naes of ASCII Symbols Date: 1998/01/10 Message-ID: <34B...@shaw.wave.ca>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 314608869 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <34A...@ares.informatik.uni-ulm.de> <01bd187e$68352060$LocalHost@atkins> <696gls$p0...@clarknet.clark.net> <34B...@bc.rogers.wave.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 01:22:36 MST Reply-To: jra...@shaw.wave., ca Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Chromehenge Arts Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art,alt.usage.english,alt.english.usage
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