Re: Accents

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!
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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
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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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