Graphical orthography???!!

[Ted Samsel]

>From the Holy Modal Rounders list ...

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> Subject:  Someone Ought To Set This Poem To Music -Reply
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> >>> Guillaume le Mechant <sirwill1 at netaxs.com> 05/29/97 11:43am >>>
> ....and then use it on an album with printed lyrics.
> 
> The background story is that a poll conducted among INFOCUS magazine
> readers had established "waka" as the proper pronunciation for the
> angle-bracket characters "<", though some readers held out resolutely
> for
> "norkies." Appropriately, the following poem by Fred Bremmer and Steve
> Kroese of Calvin College & Seminary of Grand Rapids, MI, appeared
> recently: 
> 
> (I think it'd make for a great fiddle tune!)
> 
> <> !*''#
> ^"`$$-
> *=@$_
> %*<> ~#4
> &[]../
> |{,,SYSTEM HALTED
> 
> 
> 
> 
> "Waka waka bang splat tick tick hash,
>  Caret quote back-tick dollar dollar dash,
>  Bang splat equal at dollar under-score,
>  Percent splat waka waka tilde number four,
>  Ampersand bracket bracket dot dot slash,
>  Vertical-bar curly-bracket comma comma CRASH."
> 

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