Re: CONLANG Digest - 4 Jul 2001 to 5 Jul 2001 (#2001-187)

D Tse scripsit:

> I remember reading in a textbook in sixth grade that the question mark
> resulted from the letters q and o from the word _quaestio_ being placed
> above each other.
The trouble with this theory, and the corresponding "io!" theory,
is that the dot at the bottom of "?" and "!" is and always has been
a typographical period: in every decent font, it has the same shape
as the period of that font.  Nowhere is it hollow.

--
John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore
        --Douglas Hofstadter