jb (12/10/82)
You mean that not everyone refers to ~ as "snake"?
csc (12/12/82)
In Waterloo, we call the ^ a carrot.
pcmcgeer (12/13/82)
That's a carat, Jan. (^ at Waterloo)
barmar (12/14/82)
No, ^ is NOT called a carrot, although it is pronounced similarly. It is called a "caret", which is exactly what it is. Look in a dictionary and you will probably find that a caret is a diacritical mark or accent (French uses it a bit). barmar
CAD:ricks (12/14/82)
#N:ucbcad:26000002:000:374 ucbcad!ricks Dec 14 15:00:00 1982 Around these parts we use the following names for these characters (please no flames about how outdated and obscure these are): ! - explanation point () - parentheses [] - brackets ~ - tilde * - asterisk @ - at sign $ - dollar sign % - percent sign a - the letter a : - bob ... Rick L Spickelmier ...!ucbvax!ucbcad!ricks (UUCP) ucbcad.ricks@berkeley (ARPA)
keith (12/17/82)
#R:ucbcad:26000002:hp-pcd:6400007:000:222 hp-pcd!keith Dec 17 08:34:00 1982 Waltzing Ma~ Waltzing Ma~ Won't you come waltzing Ma~ with me... (I'd finish it, but I don't know the rest of the characters.) Keith M. Taylor Corvallis, Oregon hp-pcd!keith
silver (12/22/82)
@ at * splat ! bang
rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn) (07/25/84)
The base article forgot one for "*": "Nathan Hale". (You remember--Nathan Hale was the one who said, "I regret that I have but one asterisk for my country:-) -- Dick Dunn {hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd (303)444-5710 x3086 ...A friend of the devil is a friend of mine.