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Re: Accents

From:Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>
Date:Wednesday, January 9, 2002, 0:43
On Tue, 8 Jan 2002 16:55:28 +0000 Stephen Mulraney
<ataltanie@...> writes:
> I discovered this about a month ago, and it's wonderfull - better > than > alt-codes, better than charselectors, and much better than the > directory > full of files kludge, which I used to use too! ¡Nöwåðays Í can týpe > thêm qúícklý!
- This, btw, is how i came up with the Rokbeigalmki word _itekos_, meaning "society" or "civilization". In a private email conversation i was having with another member of the list (who wasn't on it at the time), if i remember correctly he titled one of his emails "Human Society", so i titled one of mine the same phrase, but backwards - "yteicos namuh" but with lots of random diacritics on the vowels. And because of that, _yteicos_ > _itekos_ became the Rokbeigalmki word for "society".
> BTW, why do Americans call # ('hash', 'octothorp') the 'pound > symbol' ?? > Stephen Mulraney
- I don't know, but we also call it 'cross-hatch' and the 'tic-tac-toe sign'. -Stephen (Steg) "if you want to annoy the darfler call him 'marc' when his hair is red" ~ not exactly that sweater song

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