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RE: bang bang ? = [Ex point ]
- Subject: RE: bang bang ? = [Ex point ]
- From: Jack Shafer jacksh@xxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 15:43:50 -0700
When reading out loud, journalists, typesetters, and proofreaders frequently
call exclamation points "bangs" or "bangers" because it's much easy to say
than "ex-cla-ma-tion point."
-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Say [mailto:say@xxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, September 17, 1998 4:05 PM
To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: bang bang ? = [Ex point ]
"bang bang" ?
"bang" is the name of the exclamation mark or
exclamation point in Unix-language.
I'll leave to someone else to dig up the
etymology of "bang"=!
dsay
say@xxxxxxxx