Wordie: *e?e: Comments

Comment by reesetee, 5 months ago

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 15:22:27 +0000

Thanks, skip. *rubbing neck*

Comment by skipvia, 5 months ago

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 23:14:10 +0000

Gawrsh, ptery--it's nothing. No, really...it's nothing. Just surf on over to the Unicode section of FileFormat.info and have a field day. (I have better results using the decimal HTML entity. All will be revealed when you visit the site.)

Comment by pterodactyl, 5 months ago

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:06:37 +0000

ə¿ə -- bravo, skipvia! Your prowess with non-standard characters is truly impressive.

*applauds*

And I thank you on behalf of my neck, which will no longer have to suffer such indignities in the name of gremlin-summoning.

Comment by skipvia, 5 months ago

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:41:02 +0000

You know, it kind of looks like a character from Doonesbury.

Edit: Mark Slackmeyer.

Comment by skipvia, 5 months ago

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:38:42 +0000

Why not write it ə¿ə and avoid having to turn your computer (or yourself) upside down?

Comment by Prolagus, 5 months ago

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:26:27 +0000

They have a name: Henohenomoheji!

Comment by reesetee, 5 months ago

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:12:29 +0000

Why, you're right--it does look like a bulbous-nosed gremlin out of the cathode ray depths!

*crack* Ouch.

Comment by Prolagus, 5 months ago

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:22:55 +0000

Ha! It reminds me a face entirely made of kana (the Japanese syllabic script) that Rumiko Takahashi sometimes draws in her manga.

Comment by pterodactyl, 5 months ago

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:13:02 +0000

I'm trying out the question mark in the title, and I find that if I rotate my screen 180 degrees, the list's new title looks like a cartoony face drawn in three-quarters angle.

(I have a CRT monitor, so I'm not actually rotating my screen 180 degrees. I'm standing up from my chair and craning my head wayyyyy over to the left. As the blood rushes to my head... pop! It appears! Like some bulbous-nosed gremlin out of the cathode ray depths!)

Comment by reesetee, 5 months ago

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:58:54 +0000

Thanks, ptero!

Maybe a question mark for one and an asterisk for the other? That's how I've seen a few word-search sites make the distinction.

Comment by pterodactyl, 5 months ago

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:50:59 +0000

Sure, eye is fine. Add away, my friend!

As for the asterisk, the truth is I couldn't figure out a simple way to distinguish between "any one character" (which is what the second asterisk means) and "any character or characters, or no character" (which is what the first asterisk means).

Comment by reesetee, 5 months ago

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:28:36 +0000

Interesting list idea! Would eye count? (I notice you have an asterisk before the first "e" in your list name.)

Comment by pterodactyl, 5 months ago

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:19:01 +0000

I think I just missed an opportunity to use the word antipenultimate.