RE: Waka waka bang splat

["Combs, Richard" <richard -dot- combs -at- Polycom -dot- com>]

Chris Morton wrote:
 
> The following poem was written collaboratively after readers of
> "INFOCUS"
> argued to consensus that the angle-bracket characters should be called
> "waka." The text of the poem follows. You'll note that it uses both
the
> "hash" and "number" labels for "#"
> 
> <>!*''#
> ^"`$$-
> !*= -at- $_
> %*<>~#4
> &<>../
> |{,,SYSTEM HALTED
> 
> The poem can only be appreciated by reading it aloud, to wit:
> 
> *Waka waka bang splat tick tick hash,
> Caret quote back-tick dollar dollar dash,
> Bang splat equal at dollar underscore,
> Percent splat waka waka tilde number four,
> Ampersand bracket bracket dot dot slash,
> Vertical-bar curly-bracket comma comma CRASH.*

Very clever and amusing. But in addition to the typo that Peter pointed
out, I see another problem. The readers agreed that the left angle
bracket and right angle bracket should _both_ be "waka"? That's just
_so_ wrong. 

Clearly, if the left angle bracket is "waka," the right angle bracket
should be "akaw." :-)


Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
303-223-5111
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303-777-0436
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