The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992. Various

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СКАЧАТЬ change allowed the inclusion of lowercase letters —- a major

       {win} —- but it did not provide for accented letters or any

       other letterforms not used in English (such as the German sharp-S

       and the ae-ligature

       which is a letter in, for example, Norwegian). It could be worse,

       though. It could be much worse. See {{EBCDIC}} to understand how.

      Computers are much pickier and less flexible about spelling than humans; thus, hackers need to be very precise when talking about characters, and have developed a considerable amount of verbal shorthand for them. Every character has one or more names —- some formal, some concise, some silly. Common jargon names for ASCII characters are collected here. See also individual entries for {bang}, {excl}, {open}, {ques}, {semi}, {shriek}, {splat}, {twiddle}, and {Yu-Shiang Whole Fish}.

      This list derives from revision 2.3 of the USENET ASCII pronunciation guide. Single characters are listed in ASCII order; character pairs are sorted in by first member. For each character, common names are given in rough order of popularity, followed by names that are reported but rarely seen; official ANSI/CCITT names are surrounded by brokets: <>. Square brackets mark the particularly silly names introduced by {INTERCAL}. Ordinary parentheticals provide some usage information.

      !

       Common: {bang}; pling; excl; shriek; <exclamation mark>.

       Rare: factorial; exclam; smash; cuss; boing; yell; wow; hey;

       wham; eureka; [spark-spot]; soldier.

      "

       Common: double quote; quote. Rare: literal mark;

       double-glitch; <quotation marks>; <dieresis>; dirk;

       [rabbit-ears]; double prime.

      #

       Common: <number sign>; pound; pound sign; hash; sharp;

       {crunch}; hex; [mesh]; octothorpe. Rare: flash; crosshatch;

       grid; pig-pen; tictactoe; scratchmark; thud; thump; {splat}.

      $

       Common: dollar; <dollar sign>. Rare: currency symbol; buck;

       cash; string (from BASIC); escape (when used as the echo of

       ASCII ESC); ding; cache; [big money].

      %

       Common: percent; <percent sign>; mod; grapes. Rare:

       [double-oh-seven].

      &

       Common: <ampersand>; amper; and. Rare: address (from C);

       reference (from C++); andpersand; bitand; background (from

       `sh(1)'); pretzel; amp. [INTERCAL called this `ampersand';

       what could be sillier?]

      '

       Common: single quote; quote; <apostrophe>. Rare: prime;

       glitch; tick; irk; pop; [spark]; <closing single quotation

       mark>; <acute accent>.

      ()

       Common: left/right paren; left/right parenthesis; left/right;

       paren/thesis; open/close paren; open/close; open/close

       parenthesis; left/right banana. Rare: so/al-ready;

       lparen/rparen; <opening/closing parenthesis>; open/close round

       bracket, parenthisey/unparenthisey; [wax/wane]; left/right

       ear.

      *

       Common: star; [{splat}]; <asterisk>. Rare: wildcard; gear;

       dingle; mult; spider; aster; times; twinkle; glob (see

       {glob}); {Nathan Hale}.

      +

       Common: <plus>; add. Rare: cross; [intersection].

      ,

       Common: <comma>. Rare: <cedilla>; [tail].

      -

       Common: dash; <hyphen>; <minus>. Rare: [worm]; option; dak;

       bithorpe.

      .

       Common: dot; point; <period>; <decimal point>. Rare: radix

       point; full stop; [spot].

      /

       Common: slash; stroke; <slant>; forward slash. Rare:

       diagonal; solidus; over; slak; virgule; [slat].

      :

       Common: <colon>. Rare: dots; [two-spot].

      ;

       Common: <semicolon>; semi. Rare: weenie; [hybrid],

       pit-thwong.

      <>

       Common: <less/greater than>; left/right angle bracket;

       bra/ket; left/right broket. Rare: from/{into, towards}; read

       from/write to; suck/blow; comes-from/gozinta; in/out;

       crunch/zap (all from UNIX); [angle/right angle].

      =

       Common: <equals>; gets; takes. Rare: quadrathorpe;

       [half-mesh].

      ?

       Common: query; <question mark>; {ques}. Rare: whatmark;

       [what]; wildchar; huh; hook; buttonhook; hunchback.

      @

       Common: at sign; at; strudel. Rare: each; vortex; whorl;

       [whirlpool]; cyclone; snail; ape; cat; rose; cabbage;

       <commercial at>.

      V

       Rare: [book].

      []

       Common: left/right square bracket; <opening/closing bracket>;

       bracket/unbracket; left/right bracket. Rare: square/unsquare;

       [U turn/U turn back].

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