Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site rtech.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!mtuxo!mtunh!mtung!mtunf!ariel!vax135!petsd!pesnta!hplabs!amdahl!rtech!jeff From: jeff@rtech.UUCP (Jeff Lichtman) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: Names for symbols (ASCII char variety) Message-ID: <537@rtech.UUCP> Date: Sat, 6-Jul-85 04:30:16 EDT Article-I.D.: rtech.537 Posted: Sat Jul 6 04:30:16 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 9-Jul-85 05:38:23 EDT References: <536@rtech.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Relational Technology, Alameda CA Lines: 14 > ? question mark!* (it seems odd to me that I can't think of a colloquial > name for this character - "question mark" seems clumsy enough for > it to merit one) > > Bob McQueer Another name for ? is "interrogation point". This is so clumsy that it makes one grateful for the term "question mark". -- Jeff Lichtman at rtech (Relational Technology, Inc.) aka Swazoo Koolak {amdahl, sun}!rtech!jeff {ucbvax, decvax}!mtxinu!rtech!jeff