Re: Umlauts (was Re: Elves and Ill Bethisad)
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, October 29, 2003, 17:32 |
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On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 06:05:15PM +0200, Steg Belsky wrote:
> Isn't "caron" also the name of the hacek-like or upside-down hacek-like
> mark used in proofreading to show an insertion into the text?
Nope, that's a "caret", which is where the ASCII character ^ gets
its name.
SOMEONE must know how "caron" got coined. Ring up the ISO!
Maybe they didn't want to use a word that sounded as Slavic
as "hacek", eh? Racists in the ISO! Alert the media! Investigative
journalists: ATTACK!
:)
-Mark
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