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[Jonathan Lighter]

No, Charlie, no !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jno-dashL

On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 8:07 AM, Charles C Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:

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> Not the same topic, really, but this is still about vocalized (or
> "oralized") punctuation marks:
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> One of my students insists that she attended high school with a girl who
> spelled her name L--a and pronounced it "la dash ah" (the "dash" should
> appear as a solid line, probably).
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> I shared the information about L--a with a friend who teaches in elementary
> school, and she reported a similarly named student in her school:  K--a.
>
> Of course, there are other vocalized and verbalized  punctuation marks (not
> counting Victor Borge's comedy routines), like "dot dot dot," and the
> clause-final exclamation "period!" and "quote" slash "unquote."
>
> --Charlie
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> Alexander [strangeguitars at GMAIL.COM]
> Sent: Friday, August 27, 2010 9:33 AM
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> For those who missed it on Language Log, Brett Reynold's of the blog
> _English, Jack_, has identified a new coordinator, "slash", as in
> "There is also a study slash guest bedroom".
>
> You can see Geoff Pullum's LL post here:
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> http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2584
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> Maybe some of the antedating aficionados can track down earlier instances.
>
> --
> Randy Alexander
> Xiamen, China
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