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From: asente@decwrl.UUCP (Paul Asente)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Names of compound characters
Message-ID: <2541@decwrl.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 6-Jul-83 13:36:42 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul  6 13:36:42 1983
Date-Received: Thu, 7-Jul-83 14:17:18 EDT
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Now that we've just about exhausted the potential of names for single
characters, what about names for some of the compound characters we see
all the time in computerese?  My favorites:

	/*	Slashterisk
	*/	Asterslash

	-paul