Failed punctuation

[Dan Schmidt]

 LARSSON at VAX1.Mankato.MSUS.EDU writes:

| Paul De Filippo notes:
| "I always hoped the "interrobang" would catch on, a fusion
| of exclamation point and question mark.  Also, consider the
| Tibetan "terma", three dots arranged in a mini-pyramid,
| signalling that text preceding is holy.  Should TRP use this!?"

Chess has all sorts of great punctuation - "!?" and "?!" have very
specific meanings.  There are also lots of symbols that originated in
the Informants, collections of annotated games that are published
internationally and so use only symbols rather than language in the
annotations.  For example, a hollow square means "the only non-losing
move," some symbol (a triangle I think) means "with the intention of,"
etc.

| That three-dot triangle is also a mathematical symbol whose use escapes
| my decaffeinated brain just now.

Therefore.

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