Re: OT: interestin' factoids (mostly language-related)
| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, August 7, 2000, 20:13 |
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On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, Thomas R. Wier wrote:
> That is, of course, not strictly linguistic. By itself, <?> only
> represents gesturing and such.
A playwright once telegraphed "?" to his producer to enquire how the
first night of his new play had gone. The producer replied "!".
--
John Cowan cowan@ccil.org
C'est la` pourtant que se livre le sens du dire, de ce que, s'y conjuguant
le nyania qui bruit des sexes en compagnie, il supplee a ce qu'entre eux,
de rapport nyait pas. -- Jacques Lacan, "L'Etourdit"