From: ncohen@watson.ibm.com (Norman H. Cohen)
Subject: Re: Syntax question
Date: 27 Mar 1995 14:19:00 GMT
Date: 1995-03-27T14:19:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3l6hgk$12kj@watnews1.watson.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 19950324.011135.49@banana.demon.co.uk
In article <19950324.011135.49@banana.demon.co.uk>, kevq@banana.demon.co.uk
(Kevin F. Quinn) writes:
|> In article <1995Mar23.130736.19109@cs.wm.edu>,
|> collins@cs.wm.edu (Bob Collins) wrote:
|>
|> > I asked Jean Ishbiah how to pronounce the symbol "=>." He said it
|> > was supposed to be like a pointing hand, and so he recommended
|> > pronouncing it as "finger." If you needed to know ...
|>
|> Well call me a boring old chap, but I always say "is", for what it's
|> worth...
I think we had better call in Victor Borge as a consultant. (He has a
famous routine in which he reads a story while "pronouncing" all the
punctuation marks, after assigning a variety of tounge clicks, slurps,
giant sucking sounds, and so forth to the comma, period, semicolon, etc.)
--
Norman H. Cohen ncohen@watson.ibm.com
"Don't laugh: It's YOUR language. I'm just trying to use it." -- V. Borge
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Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1995-03-11 10:12 Syntax question Geoffrey Hollingworth
1995-03-11 15:16 ` Robert A Duff
1995-03-11 20:45 ` Michael Feldman
1995-03-15 23:29 ` David Kusuda
1995-03-16 2:25 ` David Weller
1995-03-16 14:44 ` Spencer Allain
1995-03-19 1:04 ` Robert Dewar
1995-03-16 9:19 ` Fred J. McCall
1995-03-17 5:44 ` Niklas Holsti
1995-03-19 20:53 ` Robert Dewar
1995-03-11 21:44 ` Road Pilot
1995-03-23 13:07 ` Bob Collins
1995-03-24 1:11 ` Kevin F. Quinn
1995-03-27 14:19 ` Norman H. Cohen [this message]
1995-03-13 4:43 ` Keith Thompson
1995-03-16 20:37 ` Norman H. Cohen
1995-03-21 0:51 ` Robert Dewar
1995-03-16 19:20 ` Adam Beneschan
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-07-05 17:58 Syntax Question Robby Simpson
2001-07-05 18:32 ` Marin David Condic
2001-07-05 18:38 ` Robby Simpson
2001-07-05 19:09 ` Ted Dennison
2001-07-05 20:14 ` Robby Simpson
2001-07-05 21:44 ` Robert Dewar
2001-07-09 12:39 ` Robby Simpson
[not found] <Cx6pG3.IEp@ucc.su.oz.au>
1994-10-05 14:20 ` Syntax question Tucker Taft
[not found] ` <36ui0u$4dg@gnat.cs.nyu.edu>
1994-10-06 0:04 ` David Weller
1994-10-05 5:19 Adrian Cho
1994-10-05 11:52 ` Robert Dewar
1994-10-05 17:19 ` Norman H. Cohen
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