Comments on: Hash hat bang and star

Hash hat bang and star

Plutor — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 06:45:42 -0800

# ^ ! & *

By: ColdChef

ColdChef — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 06:49:08 -0800

Hey, watch your language. There are children here.

By: Dr-Baa

Dr-Baa — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 06:51:10 -0800

By: mr_crash_davis

mr_crash_davis — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 06:51:31 -0800

By: handee

handee — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 06:53:34 -0800

Any idea who first thought of the upside-down A for "for all" ∀ and the backwards E for "exists" ∃ ?

By: clevershark

clevershark — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 06:54:17 -0800

By: baylink

baylink — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 06:56:58 -0800

" "

By: slimepuppy

slimepuppy — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 06:58:21 -0800

I'm naturally apprehensive towards a site discussing the etymology of, well, anything when they can't even spell etymology correctly... Ethymology of Symbols, indeed. Other than that, cool!

By: cortex

cortex — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 07:03:17 -0800

No headline link for the noble amphora? Outrage!

By: phyrewerx

phyrewerx — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 07:08:01 -0800

Oh thank goodness, I thought you stubbed your toe this morning.

By: CrunchyFrog

CrunchyFrog — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 07:14:10 -0800

handee: The backwards E was first used by Peano in 1897. The upside-down A was invented by Gentzen in 1935. ^

By: hermitosis

hermitosis — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 07:18:38 -0800

This new Wikipedia notation just keeps getting more and more confusing...

By: randomination

randomination — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 07:25:21 -0800

This is bizarre, I was thinking of doing an FPP on punctuation and symbols and things. Wikipedia says the section sign (§) has some very wide-ranging uses: * symbol of justice in Poland * symbol of currency in the Sims * symbol of classification in biology * symbol to warn of snakes in the Kalahari desert because to read the word 'snake' is very bad luck Hmm, I can name a movie that might have to be substantially recut before it reaches Botswana.

By: Godbert

Godbert — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 07:26:50 -0800

* symbol to warn of snakes in the Kalahari desert because to read the word 'snake' is very bad luck Hmm, I can name a movie that might have to be substantially recut before it reaches Botswana. "Get these motherfucking § off my motherfucking plane!"

By: ZenMasterThis

ZenMasterThis — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 07:33:39 -0800

Some symbols make a bigger splash than others.

By: splice

splice — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 07:38:03 -0800

<> ! * ' ' # ^ " ` $ $ - ! * = @ $ _ % * <> ~ # 4 & [ ] . . / | { , , system halted

By: octothorpe

octothorpe — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 07:39:50 -0800

By: sourwookie

sourwookie — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 07:41:56 -0800

Is this where we start another pointless anti-caret pile-on?

By: jewzilla

jewzilla — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 07:43:41 -0800

<> ! * ' ' # Waka waka bang splat tick tick hash, ^ " ` $ $ - Caret quote back-tick dollar dollar dash, ! * = @ $ _ Bang splat equal at dollar under-score, % * <> ~ # 4 Percent splat waka waka tilde number four, & [ ] . . / Ampersand bracket bracket dot dot slash, | { , , SYSTEM HALTED Vertical-bar curly-bracket comma comma CRASH.

By: NinjaTadpole

NinjaTadpole — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 07:51:17 -0800

The final link is cut short halfway through multiplication. I'm slightly ashamed to say I was enjoying that enormously. #:(

By: unknowncommand

unknowncommand — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 07:54:54 -0800

I find "and per se and" to be wickedly funny. Any truth to the statement that the ampersand used to be the unofficial 27th letter of the alphabet? Wikipedia isn't sure.

By: yeti

yeti — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 08:11:49 -0800

Is Ethymology a legitimate alternate spelling of Etymology? Wiki has an entry with a redirect as does Columbia Encyclopedia.

By: QuarterlyProphet

QuarterlyProphet — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 08:14:12 -0800

I'm naturally apprehensive towards a site discussing the etymology of, well, anything when they can't even spell etymology correctly... Ethymology of Symbols, indeed. Other than that, cool! The online dictionary I just used just redirected Ethymology to etymology. I don't know if that means the dictionary thinks the H is a typo or if ethymology is just used much less often.

By: squirrel

squirrel — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 08:21:09 -0800

...to read the word 'snake' is very bad luck Oh, great... tell us after we've read it! Thanks, randomination!

By: hoverboards don't work on water

hoverboards don't work on water — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 08:23:48 -0800

Sink, trap, potion, demon, gem.

By: ?!

?! — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 08:29:04 -0800

You know when I first saw this I thought it was a double, but now I see you wrote # ^ ! & * where I wrote ? , !, & @ ..

By: Dr No

Dr No — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 08:37:27 -0800

Does anyone else get confused by the ampersand and the treble clef? Always used to screw me up.

By: If I Had An Anus

If I Had An Anus — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 08:42:38 -0800

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By: weapons-grade pandemonium

weapons-grade pandemonium — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 08:46:42 -0800

The ampersand must be dirty, because f&#k is more obscene than f$@K or f*#k, but I was wondering if Google would say, "Did you mean: fuck?

By: Alvy Ampersand

Alvy Ampersand — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 08:55:20 -0800

It sure is. /Gropes self and leers

By: mkhall

mkhall — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 09:07:31 -0800

Sink, trap, potion, demon, gem. I thought the same thing, and I haven't played that game in years.

By: gminks

gminks — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 09:12:54 -0800

oh jewilla I think I love you now!!! (and I thought I was bad for singing -in my head of course- she bang she bang every time I write a script)

By: gramschmidt

gramschmidt — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 09:18:00 -0800

I've seen it written, but I've never actually heard anyone refer to the number sign (#) ^{HOLY FUCK IT'S A SUPERSCRIPTED WIKIPEDIA LINK} as an "octothorpe". I clearly don't hang around with as many ex-Bell Labs employees as I should.

By: illiad

illiad — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 09:36:29 -0800

Thanks so much, If I Had An Anus. That was a very fine seizure you induced in me.

By: Foosnark

Foosnark — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 09:38:29 -0800

::blink:: that's quite the series of tubes there, If. Also I didn't know Firefox supported the blink tag.

By: ronv

ronv — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 09:40:35 -0800

there's no part of illiad's comment i didn't like.

By: gcbv

gcbv — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 09:43:06 -0800

!!!

By: booksandlibretti

booksandlibretti — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 10:06:10 -0800

Does anyone else get confused by the ampersand and the treble clef? I can only draw ampersands if I think of them as backwards, slightly modified treble clef signs. Clearly I am a sad, sad person.

By: bz

bz — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 10:10:53 -0800

It's all maledicta to me.

By: Smart Dalek

Smart Dalek — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 10:11:27 -0800

*x.@!

By: jewzilla

jewzilla — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 10:35:57 -0800

gminks: you won't feel so great after you've sung it in your head for the thousandth time. MAKE IT STOP!

By: eriko

eriko — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 10:48:43 -0800

I think I remember this one: <> ! * ' ' # ^ " ` $ $ - ! * = @ $ _ % * <> ~ # 4 & [ ] . . / | { , , SYSTEM HALTED angle angle bang splat tic tic hash caret quote backtick dollar dollar dash bang splat equal at dollar underscore squiggle splat lesser greater tilde number four amp bracket bracket dot dot slash pipe curly bracket comma comma crash.

By: octothorpe

octothorpe — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 10:50:29 -0800

I've seen it written, but I've never actually heard anyone refer to the number sign (#) as an "octothorpe". I feel personally insulted.

By: kittyprecious

kittyprecious — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 11:17:30 -0800

!!! Saw them last month; they were an hour late, moody, and mindbendingly awful.

By: kid ichorous

kid ichorous — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 11:17:58 -0800

If you translate this thread into Nethack, it's the lyrics to "Monster Mash."

By: languagehat

languagehat — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 12:35:09 -0800

Is Ethymology a legitimate alternate spelling of Etymology? No.

By: loquacious

loquacious — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 12:35:10 -0800

I think I just ascended.

By: delmoi

delmoi — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 16:12:45 -0800

Does anyone else get confused by the ampersand and the treble clef? I don't.