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  "thread": {
    "id": 3748,
    "subject": "punctuation",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2003-01-07T01:59:04+00:00",
    "last": "2003-01-07T01:59:04+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0301-2623@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "David Duffy",
        "address": "davidd at qimr.edu.au"
      },
      "date": "2003-01-07T01:59:04+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) RE: punctuation",
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          "text": "On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:\n\nIt's a pity we're limited to ASCII here ... in the old days\nof mimeo'd fanzines and such, we had a way cool bit of \ninvented-for-the-purpose punctuation called the \"quasi-quote,\" \nformed by typing the double-inverted-comma character, \nbackspacing, and typing a hyphen in the same place: meaning, \n\"I'm quoting this from memory, so the exact wording may be \nwrong.\" Almost as useful as the interabang (? typed over !)\nfor rhetorical questions and the often-discussed but never\nquite created \"irony mark.\"\n\n--Blattid"
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          "text": "I can't resist pointing out that these are used in chess notation:\n\n\"!?\" interesting and speculative\n\"?!\" bold but unsound\n\nLots of use for them on this list ;)\n\nDavid Duffy."
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