Alyssa True’s Reviews > Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols & Other Typographical Marks > Status Update
Alyssa True
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Houston goes on and on about irony marks from Anglophone countries but there is a mark (the temherte salq) straight from the Cradle of Humanity!
— Jun 21, 2022 08:56AM
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Alyssa True
is on page 182 of 352
Buried in these chapters about other punctuation marks are details about yet more characters like the hedera!
— May 02, 2022 09:42AM
Alyssa True
is on page 146 of 352
This is the best explanation I've read for the difference between the em and the en dash, although now I feel like a hypen-minus abusing typographic fraud.
— Apr 08, 2022 03:52AM
Alyssa True
is on page 117 of 352
I remember the one character in Doonesbury (when I read it in the Sunday funnies) who was always an asterisk!
— Apr 07, 2022 06:51PM
