Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!genrad!mit-eddi!rh From: rh@mit-eddi.UUCP (Randy Haskins) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: Re: What is the # called? - (nf) Message-ID: <301@mit-eddi.UUCP> Date: Fri, 24-Jun-83 02:04:04 EDT Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.301 Posted: Fri Jun 24 02:04:04 1983 Date-Received: Fri, 24-Jun-83 22:55:07 EDT References: umcp-cs.145 Lines: 18 I have a few names of my own: * star ( open ) close < less > greater - dash | bar (as in: "UnderdogPOPs archDASHvillian was named Simon|Siniter) Also, vaguely related: In French, they teach you that final consonnants OPENspHUHCLOSE are not OPENusuallyCLOSE pronounced unless they are of the group C,R,F,L, or the consonnants (sic) in 'careful.' I immediately decided that the rule was, "Do not pronounce, except in case of NEWLINE." Safire-ly yours, Randy