On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Marco Cimarosti wrote:

> Standing its usage in text, couldn't it be considered as a punctuation mark?

No, I don't agree. More like a dingbat it looks to me, as far as you don't 
get very philosophical.

> If this is the case, decomposing the mark into the Arabic letters it derives
> from would be as nonsensical as decomposing the question mark into the Latin
> letters it derives from ("Qo" for "quaestio").

But is "?" visually similar to "Qo"? This dingbat/punctuation/whatever
*is* visually similar to its decomposition.

roozbeh


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