Re: Naes of ASCII Symbols
From John Doherty <jdo...@ix.netcom.com>
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· 10 Jan 1998 00:00 · View full thread
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In article <O6w...@upnetnews02.moswest.msn.net>, "Brock Kevin Nambo" <new...@earthling.net> 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.
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