Re: Naes of ASCII Symbols
From Alan Pollock <nex...@king.cts.com>
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· 14 Jan 1998 00:00 · View full thread
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Ti-Blanc (ti-...@geocities.com) wrote: :Kathy wrote: :> :> US English makes the same distinctions, at least where I am (NYC area). :> :> Incidentally, EVERYONE I know refers to # as "pound sign". (I'm referring :> to another thread I saw in this newsgroup.) Programmers, teachers, :> retirees. I only heard someone call it "octothorpe" once, and that guy was :> kidding around. Once every blue moon I hear it called "hash sign". : : :I have never heard this # referred to as the pound sign. I usually hear :number sign. For me the pound sign is the symbol for British currency. A :hash sign sounds like like a drug dealer's signal that he has something :to sell. :> But where do you live, or rather, where have you lived the longest? Nex __________________________________________________________________________ "Ah, if in this world there were no such thing as cherry blossoms, perhaps then in springtime our hearts would be at peace." Ariwara no Narihira __________________________________________________________________________
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