Re: Re: How do I pronounce all this stuff

belg4mit onomatopoetically offered:

<>!*''#              waka waka bang splat tick tick hash
^@`$$-               carat at back-tick dollar dollar dash
*!'$_                splat bang tick dollar underscore
%*<>#4               percent splat waka waka number four
&)../                ampersand right-paren dot dot slash
{~|**SYSTEM HALTED   curly bracket tilde pipe splat splat crash
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Is it just me, or does anyone else envision two kids sitting cross-legged across from one another, clapping their hands, knees, and each others hands as they chant this rhyming incantation? I think this is the basis for a whole new area of Perl poetry!

Nice discussion. I do think I might be alone in using the american predilection for calling a dollar a 'buck' in my pronunciations while muttering perl code to myself:

$var: "buck var"
$_: "buck bar"
etc...

Matt

Update: Okay, belg4mit did make a 'bucks' reference. I'm not alone after all! Except perhaps with my reading retention skills. ;-)

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Re: Re: Re: How do I pronounce all this stuff by petral (Curate) on Apr 11, 2002 at 18:37 UTC
These are fairly standard in copy-editing: $ : "buck" _ : "score" \| : "bar" ? : "hook" & : "et" (it is a ligature of E and t) Think of all the extra milliseconds you'd have in your life if you always said "buck score" instead of "dollar underscore"! -- well microseconds, anyway. On the other hand, I call '#' "scratch", but I don't think anyone else does. Have no idea where I picked it up. p	[reply]
Re: How do I pronounce all this stuff by mojotoad (Monsignor) on Apr 16, 2002 at 18:59 UTC
Just imagine the possibilities... Dude, the other day after we & dinner I went to the \| and _'ed with a ?'er for only 20 $ !!!! Except now I seem to have a #'ing problem...like petral I have no idea where I picked it up. <sigh> Heh heh! Matt	[reply]


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