RE: Saying characters out loud (derives from hash, pound,octothorpe?)
On 07/11/2002 11:29:04 AM Suzanne M. Topping wrote: There was a comedian in the 1970's (I remember him from the children's public television show Electric Company) who pronounced punctuation phonetically while reading various passages. So it wasn't words for the symbols, it was sounds. Would you believe he came to my school in Montreal when I was in something like 2nd grade, and that I saw him do that very sketch live? You can get videotapes of Victor Borge performances. He was quite talented! - Peter --- Peter Constable Non-Roman Script Initiative, SIL International 7500 W. Camp Wisdom Rd., Dallas, TX 75236, USA Tel: +1 972 708 7485 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Saying characters out loud (derives from hash, pound,octothorpe?)
-Original Message- From: Tex Texin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] I have heard: squiqqle for tilde bang for exclamation mark hook for question mark. and of course dot for period. There was a comedian in the 1970's (I remember him from the children's public television show Electric Company) who pronounced punctuation phonetically while reading various passages. So it wasn't words for the symbols, it was sounds.
Re: Saying characters out loud (derives from hash, pound,octothorpe?)
Suzanne M. Topping wrote: There was a comedian in the 1970's (I remember him from the children's public television show Electric Company) who pronounced punctuation phonetically while reading various passages. So it wasn't words for the symbols, it was sounds. Victor Borge - very funny bit. See: http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amgsql=Aja3gtq4znu43 - John Burger The MITRE Corporation
RE: Saying characters out loud (derives from hash, pound,octothorpe?)
Joe sent around a classic version of Waka waka bang splat, but my favorite is a slightly pared-down version set to music for a four-part round, lyrics by Fred Bremmer and Steve Kroese, music by Melissa D. Binde: http://www.roundsing.org/music/waka-waka.html where you can listen to it in it's multipart beauty. roundsing.org has other classics such as: I eat my peas with honey, I've done it all my life. It makes the peas taste funny But it keeps them on my knife. --Ken
Re: RE: Saying characters out loud (derives from hash, pound,octothorpe?)
Joe wrote: Date: 7 Aug 90 17:00:43 PDT (Tuesday) Coincidentally, the temperature of my living room was 90 yesterday afternoon. ... proving that this topic always comes up in the summer when it sizzles. Rick
RE: Saying characters out loud (derives from hash, pound,octothorpe?)
OK, I was relying on Ken to retrieve this from archive, but he seems to be
off researching frogiform glyphs. Check it out on Google for more
references.
Joe
Date: 7 Aug 90 17:00:43 PDT (Tuesday)
Subject: Re: Names of characters
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Waka waka bang splat tick tick hash,
Caret at back-tick dollar dollar dash,
Bang splat tick dollar under-score,
Percent splat waka waka number four,
Ampersand right-paren dot dot slash,
Vertical-bar curly-bracket tilde tilde CRASH.
Re: Saying characters out loud (derives from hash, pound, octothorpe?)
At 11:37 AM 7/5/2002 +0100, Michael Everson wrote: Also, how does one say the U+007E character out loud while reading out the address of a web page? Tilde. Get real, William. FF5E is colloquially known as a wave in Japanese, IIRC, and hence 007E is a small wave or half width wave. Barry Caplan www.i18n.com
Re: Saying characters out loud (derives from hash, pound,octothorpe?)
I have heard: squiqqle for tilde bang for exclamation mark hook for question mark. tex Barry Caplan wrote: At 11:37 AM 7/5/2002 +0100, Michael Everson wrote: Also, how does one say the U+007E character out loud while reading out the address of a web page? Tilde. Get real, William. FF5E is colloquially known as a wave in Japanese, IIRC, and hence 007E is a small wave or half width wave. Barry Caplan www.i18n.com -- - Tex Texin cell: +1 781 789 1898 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Xen Master http://www.i18nGuy.com XenCrafthttp://www.XenCraft.com Making e-Business Work Around the World -
Re: Saying characters out loud (derives from hash, pound, octothorpe?)
William Overington recently said: Still no olde worlde shoppe name with a yogh in though yet? :-) Why bother with an old one when there is a current shop with a yogh? Do you have a newsagent called Menzies in your part of England? (They have spread from Scotland.) That isn't a zed (or zee) in the name; it's a yogh. Tim -- Tim Partridge. Any opinions expressed are mine only and not those of my employer
Re: Saying characters out loud (derives from hash, pound, octothorpe?)
- Original Message - From: Marco Cimarosti [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'William Overington' [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Also, how does one say the U+007E character out loud while reading out the address of a web page? Ondina (on-DEE-nah), tilde (TILL-day), or you just make a waving gesture with your hand. Ondina is very nice to me, similar idea used in ISO French name list for U+0672 ALIF HAMZA ONDÉ, for instance) Patrick Unicode en français http://hapax.iquebec.com
