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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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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-223) and index. | ||
| 520 | |a 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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| 505 | 0 | |a Preface; 1 Time and Chance: Punctuality and the Coin Toss; 2 Dit Dah: Codes to Sigh For; 3 With a Bullet: Checklists and Dingbats; 4 ... And a Half: Musical Dots; 5 For Short: Mr., Sr., et al.; 6 Dot Dot Dot: Ellipses, Lacunae, and Missing Links; 7 Stet: Emendations of Immortality; 8 Ninety-Eight Point Six: Decimals and Determinings; 9 Dot Com: Computation Punctuation; 10 Bang! The Dot Meets the Family; 11 Period: The End Point; Afterword and Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Index. | |
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