Re: Wikipedia entry on XyWrite

[Bill Troop billtroop@xxxxxxxx]

> So just you wait, Carl, there may be a movement afoot to replace
> those dots with dashes. (For you sociolinguists, the student is
> "non-traditional," probably about 40 years old.)

or maybe was just reading Firbank?
whose use of multiple dashes, question marks, exclamation points and
of course ellipses - - can be catching . . . . . . ! - - - - - ! . .
. . ? (frankly, I find his extravagant punctuation highly evocative
and obviously very carefully worked out - - say, in 'Flower Beneath
the Foot' where there is not so much as a white space misplaced.
There's a very sensitively typeset Penguin of it in the US.