From rlpowell@csclub.uwaterloo.ca Tue Jun 27 12:11:08 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14945 invoked from network); 27 Jun 2000 18:37:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m5.onelist.org with QMQP; 27 Jun 2000 18:37:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca) (129.97.134.11) by mta1 with SMTP; 27 Jun 2000 18:36:39 -0000 Received: from calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA07121 for ; Tue, 27 Jun 2000 13:52:32 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200006271752.NAA07121@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> To: "lojban@onelist.com" Subject: Re: [lojban] RE:character names In-Reply-To: Message from John Cowan of "Tue, 27 Jun 2000 11:52:47 EDT." <3958CDCF.CB32DCE9@reutershealth.com> Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 13:52:26 -0400 X-eGroups-From: Robin Lee Powell From: Robin Lee Powell John Cowan writes: >pycyn@aol.com wrote: > >> It is important to note that these names are not for the characters per se >> but for them in some particular function. > >Many characters have standardized names that describe only one of their >functions. # is called NUMBER SIGN by ISO and Unicode, but also serves as >a pound (weight) sign in the U.S. You know, I've heard people _call_ it the pound sign, but I've _never_ seen it used that way IRL. -Robin -- http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~rlpowell/ BTW, I'm male, honest. ... stripped of our uniqueness as human beings by Darwin, exposed to our own inadequacies by Freud, ... Power -- "the ability to bring about our desires" -- is all that we have left. --- Michael Korda, _Power!_