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From: ncohen@watson.ibm.com (Norman H. Cohen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Syntax question
Date: 27 Mar 1995 14:19:00 GMT
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In article <19950324.011135.49@banana.demon.co.uk>, kevq@banana.demon.co.uk
(Kevin F. Quinn) writes: 

|> In article <1995Mar23.130736.19109@cs.wm.edu>,
|>           collins@cs.wm.edu (Bob Collins) wrote: 
|>
|> > I asked Jean Ishbiah how to pronounce the symbol "=>." He said it
|> > was supposed to be like a pointing hand, and so he recommended
|> > pronouncing it as "finger." If you needed to know ...
|>
|> Well call me a boring old chap, but I always say "is", for what it's
|> worth...

I think we had better call in Victor Borge as a consultant.  (He has a
famous routine in which he reads a story while "pronouncing" all the
punctuation marks, after assigning a variety of tounge clicks, slurps,
giant sucking sounds, and so forth to the comma, period, semicolon, etc.)

--
Norman H. Cohen    ncohen@watson.ibm.com

"Don't laugh: It's YOUR language.  I'm just trying to use it."  -- V. Borge