Re: Saying characters out loud (derives from hash, pound,octothor pe?)
From: Tex Texin (tex@i18nguy.com)
Date: Thu Jul 11 2002 - 14:07:32 EDT
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Yes, Borge!
So when do we start the informative annex listing all the punctuation
characters and the appropriate noises to make?
;-)
"Figge, Donald" wrote:
>
> Suzanne M. Topping wrote:
>
> >There was a comedian in the 1970's (I remember him from the children's
> >public television show "Electric Company") who pronounced punctuation
> >"phonetically" while reading various passages. So it wasn't words for
> >the symbols, it was sounds.
>
> That was probably Victor Borge.
> DonF
> //
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