Re: The great carrot conversation
From Nate / DAC <nat...@southwind.net>
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· 5 Aug 1998 00:00 · View full thread
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Note: the message below contains Non-ASCII characters. > \/� *7* > \/� 6 > _/� 5 > (,;) 4 > (,.) 3 > (,/ 2 > |/ 1 I think llizard's got it right, but just for the purpose of showing it: The grave accent " ` " (character #96) is allowed, as is the normal apostrophe " ' " (character #39). Sometimes the grave accent is called a "back-tick" or "back-apostrophe" or something similar. The character you're using " � " (character #145) is one I've seen in some IRC conversations as well, in places where an apostrophe " ' " goes. Never understood why though. On my screen, " � " and " ' " are distinctly different characters (I'm using a standard VT-100 font on a Commodore soft-80 display). My guess is " � " is the character intended to be used to show the stressed syllables in words in a dictionary definition, as in: ac-cent /ak� sent/ n. 1. To highlight or stress a character or syllable, as in this definition. 2. To change the pronunciation of one or more characters, words, or phrases, as used in foreign texts. ___________________________________________________________________ | . . | * http://www2.southwind.net/~natedac/ * | | _ _ _|_ _ _| _ _ |-----------------------------------------| | |/ \`_| | /_)/ |`_|/ ` | GCS d- s++:++ a-- C++ UB>++ P+ L>++ !E | | | |(_| \_ \_ \_|(_|\__ | W++ N++ K- w--- M- V? PS PE Y+ PGP- t++ | | at southwind dot net | 5 X+ R tv@ b+ DI(++) D+ G++ e+ h+ r- y- | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: f996b,9b28c8b0f78d910e X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: Nate / DAC <nat...@southwind.net> Subject: Re: The great carrot conversation Date: 1998/08/05 Message-ID: <Pin...@onyx.southwind.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 378180598 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT References: <6q4cf8$8q...@nntp.hut.fi> <35C...@on.spammer> <6q6p58$rcc$1...@hiram.io.com> <35C...@siemens.at> <35C...@iNOdirect.ca> <6q7vpd$4c...@nntp.hut.fi> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Organization: SouthWind Internet Access, Inc. Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
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