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410.92 EDG Social and political thought of Noam Chomsky | 410.92 SAM Barthes : a biography | 410.92 SAN Cambridge companion to Saussure | 411 COC Hyphens & hashtags* : *the stories behind the symbols on our keyboards | 411.70954133 NAY Inscriptions of Orissa : with special reference to Subarnapur | 412 BEN Dictionary of Indo-European concepts and society | 413 CAM Cambridge advanced learner 's dictionary |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
In our digital world, we owe much of our ability to communicate to the punctuation marks, mathematical symbols, and other glyphs that hover on the edges of our keyboard. Without these symbols, it would be impossible to convey meaning - our words would run in endless unbroken lines of letters and numbers. These marks, which have their origins in the earliest written communications, have evolved over many hundreds of years. Hyphens & Hashtags presents the histories of these stalwart symbols, revealing the long road many have taken on their way to general usage. In the age of digital communication, some symbols have gained additional meanings. The obscure pound sign has transformed into the hashtag, an essential component of social media. The colon now serves double duty as the eyes of the smiley-face emoticon. Alongside the historical roots of these tools, this book also considers ever-evolving modern usage and uncovers those symbols which have now fallen out of fashion. Hyphens & Hashtags casts a well-deserved spotlight on these deceptively simple marks, whose handy knack for conveying meaning in simple shorthand can marshal our sentences, clarify a calculation, or add some much-needed emotion to our online interactions.
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