Tim Bray draws attention to the fact that there is “a new kind of punctuation”:http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/03/27/StarStar gaining favor. I wonder whether “Geoff Nunberg”:http://www-csli.stanford.edu/~nunberg/ — the author of “a book on punctuation”:http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/7277.ctl — has taken notice (or has already written about it — I confess to having a hard time keeping up). Geoff lists some further work on punctuation on “his research page”:http://www-csli.stanford.edu/~nunberg/research.html.
PS Geoff e-mailed me to say that “I haven’t done anything on the asterisk business (but Alex Lascarides and I are doing some work on punctuation now, and this might be interesting). But I did do a Fresh Air “piece on smileys”:http://www-csli.stanford.edu/~nunberg/smileys.html a couple of years ago, chiefly wondering what use writers like Kafka and Jane Austen would have made of the device.”
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