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#176853 - 05/11/08 06:03 PM History Rules! [Re: The Pook]
wofahulicodoc wofahulicodoc Pooh-Bah Registered: 08/06/01 Posts: 1863 Loc: Worcester, MA	And then there some older (not to say ill-defined [not to say fanciful {not to say apocryphal}]) units that are inextricably rooted in the language. Such as the "thumb".
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#176855 - 05/11/08 06:29 PM Re: History Rules! [Re: wofahulicodoc]
twosleepy twosleepy enthusiast Registered: 02/28/08 Posts: 291 Loc: western NY	Horses are (still) measured, from the ground to the top of the withers, in "hands", which each measure 4 inches. I believe it was the width of the hand. Mine measures only about 3 inches, but I presume the average man's hand is wider. Good thing they didn't use thumbs... :0)
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#176858 - 05/11/08 06:51 PM Re: History Rules! [Re: wofahulicodoc]
AnnaStrophic AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 6403 Loc: lower upstate New York	Originally Posted By: wofahulicodoc And then there some older (not to say ill-defined [not to say fanciful {not to say apocryphal}]) units that are inextricably rooted in the language. Such as the "thumb". I don't have anything useful to add; just had to state my admiration for a guy whose punctuation is a thing of beauty.
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#176877 - 05/12/08 09:48 AM Re: History Rules! [Re: AnnaStrophic]
Alex Williams Alex Williams Pooh-Bah Registered: 01/05/01 Posts: 1722 Loc: Spam Factory	Originally Posted By: AnnaStrophic I don't have anything useful to add; just had to state my admiration for a guy whose punctuation is a thing of beauty. A parenthetical remark, as it were?
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#176914 - 05/13/08 04:57 PM Mathematicians want to know! [Re: Alex Williams]
wofahulicodoc wofahulicodoc Pooh-Bah Registered: 08/06/01 Posts: 1863 Loc: Worcester, MA	Now here's some angels for counting on the head of a pin: are they (parentheses) vs. [brackets] vs. {braces}, or are they (round brackets) vs. [square brackets] vs. {curly brackets}?
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#176918 - 05/13/08 09:12 PM Re: Mathematicians want to know! [Re: wofahulicodoc]
zmjezhd zmjezhd Pooh-Bah Registered: 08/13/05 Posts: 1623 Loc: R'lyeh	brackets Bracket is an important word in philosophy, photography, and artillery. It is also cognate with breeches. Brackets, which hold up shelves, are L-shaped things, so named because they looked like a primitive pair of pants. My favorite punctual delimiters are guillemets, i.e., « and » (link).
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#176921 - 05/13/08 10:11 PM Re: Mathematicians want to know! [Re: zmjezhd]
wofahulicodoc wofahulicodoc Pooh-Bah Registered: 08/06/01 Posts: 1863 Loc: Worcester, MA	Useful trick from link above is that left-guillemet is option-backslash [on a Mac], thus: « and right-guillemet is shift-option-backslash, viz: » (Sorry. Having a Mac I forgot to notice what the Windows equivalent is. You'll have to follow the link yourself to find it. Maybe it's better that way anyway, for learning purposes...!)
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#176922 - 05/13/08 10:16 PM Re: Mathematicians want to know! [Re: wofahulicodoc]
wofahulicodoc wofahulicodoc Pooh-Bah Registered: 08/06/01 Posts: 1863 Loc: Worcester, MA	Ooh, ooh, just noticed -- anyone want to make a double-dactyl using « Hexatrigesimal » ??!
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#177052 - 05/19/08 01:22 PM Re: double-dactyl [Re: wofahulicodoc]
AnnaStrophic AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 6403 Loc: lower upstate New York	I'm working on parthenogenesis.
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#177072 - 05/20/08 03:38 PM it's a girl! [Re: AnnaStrophic]
Alex Williams Alex Williams Pooh-Bah Registered: 01/05/01 Posts: 1722 Loc: Spam Factory	Originally Posted By: AnnaStrophic I'm working on parthenogenesis. I didn't think humans were capable of that but I wish you luck.
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