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On the dot : the speck that changed the world /
Despite the humble origins of its name, the dot has been one of the most versatile players in the history of written communication. The Humez brothers shed light on the dot in all its various forms--as a mark of punctuation and a notation in mathematics and music--take readers on an engaging tour of...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Despite the humble origins of its name, the dot has been one of the most versatile players in the history of written communication. The Humez brothers shed light on the dot in all its various forms--as a mark of punctuation and a notation in mathematics and music--take readers on an engaging tour of the highways and byways of language, ranging from the history of the question mark and its lesser known offshoots the point dʹironie and the interrobang, to acronyms and backronyms, power point bullets and asterisks, emoticons and the "at-sign." |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 256 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-223) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199717187 0199717184 0195324994 9780195324990 1281723959 9781281723956 |