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Item Information   Holdings       More by this author     Cock-Starkey, Claire, author.     Subjects     ARPA Grant     Punctuation -- History.     Mathematical notation -- History.     Signs and symbols -- History.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Cock-Starkey, Claire, author.       by title:      Hyphens & hashtags* ...         MARC Display

Hyphens & hashtags* : *the stories behind the symbols on our keyboards / Claire Cock-Starkey. by Cock-Starkey, Claire, author. Oxford : Bodleian Library, 2021. Description:  183 pages ; 20 cm Contents:  Punctuation -- Glyphs -- Mathematical symbols -- Endangered & extinct symbols. Summary:  "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."---Amazon.com. Notes:  Purchased with grant funds from the State Library of Iowa and Institute of Museum and Library Services   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Copy Status   Peosta Library Circulation Stacks 411 Coc 2021 Checked In Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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