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2013-10-28 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 2:49 AM, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.comwrote: http://multisenserealism.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/pound.jpg http://multisenserealism.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/asterisk.jpg?w=595 Part of my approach to making new sense of the universe involves indulging in

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2013-10-28 Thread Russell Standish
On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 06:49:08PM -0700, Craig Weinberg wrote: The name ‘pound sign’ seems to be fairly mysterioushttp://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2461. It does not seem to be related conclusively to either the English currency or the Avoirdupois weight. I always thought it was

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2013-10-28 Thread LizR
That article is written by an American, so I wouldn't expect him to know about the pound sign! (Also, I wouldn't think that American style keyboards are used worldwide with computers. They aren't used in the UK, or weren't last time I was there, and are most likely not used in countries where the

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2013-10-28 Thread Russell Standish
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 12:52:38PM +1300, LizR wrote: That article is written by an American, so I wouldn't expect him to know about the pound sign! (Also, I wouldn't think that American style keyboards are used worldwide with computers. They aren't used in the UK, or weren't last time I was

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2013-10-28 Thread LizR
Predominant I can believe. If there's one thing the Americans are good at, it's selling people stuff. On 29 October 2013 16:18, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 12:52:38PM +1300, LizR wrote: That article is written by an American, so I wouldn't expect him

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2013-10-27 Thread Craig Weinberg
http://multisenserealism.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/pound.jpg http://multisenserealism.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/asterisk.jpg?w=595 Part of my approach to making new sense of the universe involves indulging in meditations on unintentional symbolism. Any pattern that catches my attention

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2013-10-27 Thread Samiya Illias
Very interesting! Thanks for sharing. On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 6:49 AM, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.comwrote: http://multisenserealism.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/pound.jpg http://multisenserealism.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/asterisk.jpg?w=595 Part of my approach to making new sense