Re: OT: interestin' factoids (mostly language-related)

I thought that was Victor Hugo, for _Les Misérables_.  Or did I misremember?

Yoon Ha Lee
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On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, John Cowan wrote:

> On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, Thomas R. Wier wrote:
>
> > That is, of course, not strictly linguistic.  By itself, <?> only
> > represents gesturing and such.
>
> A playwright once telegraphed "?" to his producer to enquire how the
> first night of his new play had gone.  The producer replied "!".
>
> --
> John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
> C'est la` pourtant que se livre le sens du dire, de ce que, s'y conjuguant
> le nyania qui bruit des sexes en compagnie, il supplee a ce qu'entre eux,
> de rapport nyait pas.               -- Jacques Lacan, "L'Etourdit"
>