Re: Conpunct

>John Cowan, >>Nik Taylor wrote:
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> > The exlamation mark (!) comes from "lo", with the "l" on top of the
"o",
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> That's "io" or "IO", not "lo".  "Io" is the latin joy attitudinal.
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> > and the question mark (?) comes, IINM, from Latin "quo", think of a
> > distorted "q" on top of an "o".
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> 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

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