punctuation

On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote: It's a pity we're limited to ASCII here ... in the old days of mimeo'd fanzines and such, we had a way cool bit of invented-for-the-purpose punctuation called the "quasi-quote," formed by typing the double-inverted-comma character, backspacing, and typing a hyphen in the same place: meaning, "I'm quoting this from memory, so the exact wording may be wrong." Almost as useful as the interabang (? typed over !) for rhetorical questions and the often-discussed but never quite created "irony mark." --Blattid