Re: Saying characters out loud (derives from hash, pound,octothor pe?)

From: David Possin (dave_i18n@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Jul 12 2002 - 00:22:21 EDT


so now we have a chromatic audio attribute for each character?

a real challenge to font builders and renderers.

(sorry, I just had to post it back to you unicode guys)

Suzanne, you need to extend the definition of your new group.

ROTFL,
Dave
--- Tex Texin <tex@i18nguy.com> wrote:
> Yes, Borge!
>
> So when do we start the informative annex listing all the punctuation
> characters and the appropriate noises to make?
> ;-)
>
> "Figge, Donald" wrote:
> >
> > Suzanne M. Topping wrote:
> >
> > >There was a comedian in the 1970's (I remember him from the
> children's
> > >public television show "Electric Company") who pronounced
> punctuation
> > >"phonetically" while reading various passages. So it wasn't words
> for
> > >the symbols, it was sounds.
> >
> > That was probably Victor Borge.
> > DonF
> > //
>
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