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Alyssa True
Alyssa True is on page 146 of 352
This is the best explanation I've read for the difference between the em and the en dash, although now I feel like a hypen-minus abusing typographic fraud.
Apr 08, 2022 03:52AM
Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols & Other Typographical Marks

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Alyssa True
Alyssa True is on page 232 of 352
Houston goes on and on about irony marks from Anglophone countries but there is a mark (the temherte salq) straight from the Cradle of Humanity!
Jun 21, 2022 08:56AM
Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols & Other Typographical Marks


Alyssa True
Alyssa True is on page 182 of 352
Buried in these chapters about other punctuation marks are details about yet more characters like the hedera!
May 02, 2022 09:42AM
Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols & Other Typographical Marks


Alyssa True
Alyssa True is on page 117 of 352
I remember the one character in Doonesbury (when I read it in the Sunday funnies) who was always an asterisk!
Apr 07, 2022 06:51PM
Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols & Other Typographical Marks


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