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Re: Conpunct

From:James Campbell <james@...>
Date:Friday, December 4, 1998, 12:15
>John Cowan, >>Nik Taylor wrote:
=20
> > The exlamation mark (!) comes from "lo", with the "l" on top of the
"o",
>=20 > That's "io" or "IO", not "lo". "Io" is the latin joy attitudinal. >=20 > > and the question mark (?) comes, IINM, from Latin "quo", think of a > > distorted "q" on top of an "o". >=20 > I've heard these theories as well, but I suspect the view that the > dot in "!" and "?" is just what it appears to be, a period, > is more plausible. OTOH the notion that the upper part of "?" > is a modified Q seems reasonable.
Thanks for the info. It is interesting to compare this with the marks use= d in Armenian for similar purposes (a backtick and a curl, respectively, written above the significant word). I'd be interested to hear of any oth= er punctuation marks or conpunct stuff from other script systems. James/=C4lvard +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ + James Campbell + Zeugma: http://www.zeugma.force9.co.uk + + james@zeugma.force9.co.uk + Jameld: http://www.zeugma.force9.co.uk/zm + +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++