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Re: polls

Posted By: Eugene, on host 159.178.75.135
Date: Wednesday, December 12, 2001, at 08:38:50
In Reply To: Re: polls posted by Eric Sleator on Wednesday, December 12, 2001, at 08:13:04:

> > Your current poll on punctuation marks doesn't
> > include all the punctuation marks; it leaves
> > out a lot I like, such as the ampersand.
>
> The ampersand is technically a stylized version of "et", which I think is Latin. And also it would be a huge hassle to include every single punctuation mark in a poll like that.

I go the opposite way here, I don't know why the * was included as a punctuation mark -- I've never witnessed a star strengthen an otherwise weak sentence. But I hesitate to say this, for it seems that the * is a crowd (albeit a different and quantitatively lesser crowd than the ! hooligans) favorite. Which I guess will bring me to a question: Did y'all choose your favorites based on the mark's grammatical purpose, it's visual pleasure, or by some seemingly individual criteria? I chose " because they remind me of two white bunny eyes in a snow-storm.
Euge'"'ne

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Re: polls - Adam Bomb - Thu, 12/13/2001, 06:25:20
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    - Re: polls - Howard - Sat, 12/15/2001, 06:53:18
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      - Re: polls - Eric Sleator - Sat, 12/15/2001, 17:23:47
        
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        Re: polls - Howard - Sat, 12/15/2001, 16:08:56
        
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Re: polls - samhael - Wed, 12/12/2001, 22:52:07
Re: polls - SilverMoon - Wed, 12/12/2001, 13:33:12
- Re: polls - codeman38 - Wed, 12/12/2001, 16:57:31
- Re: polls - Silon - Wed, 12/12/2001, 16:27:31

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Message:	> > > Your current poll on punctuation marks doesn't > > > include all the punctuation marks; it leaves > > > out a lot I like, such as the ampersand. > > > > The ampersand is technically a stylized version of "et", which I think is Latin. And also it would be a huge hassle to include every single punctuation mark in a poll like that. > > I go the opposite way here, I don't know why the * was included as a punctuation mark -- I've never witnessed a star strengthen an otherwise weak sentence. But I hesitate to say this, for it seems that the * is a crowd (albeit a different and quantitatively lesser crowd than the ! hooligans) favorite. Which I guess will bring me to a question: Did y'all choose your favorites based on the mark's grammatical purpose, it's visual pleasure, or by some seemingly individual criteria? I chose " because they remind me of two white bunny eyes in a snow-storm. > Euge'"'ne
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