Re: Naes of ASCII Symbols
From Ross Howard <rho...@mx7.redestb.es>
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· 12 Jan 1998 00:00 · View full thread
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On Sat, 10 Jan 1998 13:31:37 -0600, jdo...@ix.netcom.com (John Doherty) wrote: >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. The London typographers I worked with in the '80s always called them "screamers". Ross Howard **************************************************** There's a number in my e-mail address. Subtract four from it to reply. ****************************************************
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