Dan York on Nostr: npub1hvzjv…qmle9 Continuing: - what are her thoughts on the inverted exclamation ...
npub1hvzjvzfmclu5l5zk65fxye5cgt7e0qvs6rcn60z72v9hy79mmpzq4qmle9 (npub1hvz…mle9) Continuing:
- what are her thoughts on the inverted exclamation point ¡ used in Spanish? How did that come to be?
- does her book go into how the exclamation point became called a “bang” in some contexts?
(I ask as someone who remembers the “bang-path” addressing format we had in the pre-Internet days of UUCP where your address for email was literally something like “ucb!xyz12!mycomp!dan” )
- what are her thoughts on the inverted exclamation point ¡ used in Spanish? How did that come to be?
- does her book go into how the exclamation point became called a “bang” in some contexts?
(I ask as someone who remembers the “bang-path” addressing format we had in the pre-Internet days of UUCP where your address for email was literally something like “ucb!xyz12!mycomp!dan” )