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From: langz@asylum.SF.CA.US (Lang Zerner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: How do you pronounce #?
Message-ID: <3748@asylum.SF.CA.US>
Date: 2 Sep 89 10:08:17 GMT
References: <4481@amiga.UUCP> <5660057@hpcvca.CV.HP.COM>
Reply-To: langz@asylum.UUCP (Lang Zerner)
Organization: The Great Escape, Inc
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In article <5660057@hpcvca.CV.HP.COM> charles@hpcvca.CV.HP.COM (Charles Brown) writes:
>> How do you pronounce #?.  I can pronounce '#', and I can pronounce
>> '?', but I can't manage to say '#?'. 
>
>I'd say "hash-question".  But your mileage may vary.

I've always found "question" to be a pain to have to say over and over.  When I
was a yungun and talked tech with my friends all the time, we pronounced the
question mark "what" (e.g. #? is "hash-what").

I have a bad feeling that someone is going to post the pronunciation guide from
_The Hacker's Dictionary_ any minute now.  Makes interesting reading, but this
isn't exactly the group for it (at least the hash-what discussion has
*some* specific relatedness to the Amiga :-).
-- 
Be seeing you...
--Lang Zerner
langz@asylum.sf.ca.us   UUCP:bionet!asylum!langz   ARPA:langz@athena.mit.edu
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