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Nabokov's interview. The New York Times [1969] -- How do you rank yourself among writers (living) and of the immediate past? -- I often think
by kelvich 10y ago
Nabokov's interview. The New York Times [1969]
-- How do you rank yourself among writers
(living) and of the immediate past?
-- I often think there should exist a special typographical
sign for a smile -- some sort of concave mark,
a supine round bracket, which I would now like to
trace in reply to your question.
- mjburgess 10y agoWhich had already been used in the days of the telegraph. The first use of OMG (oh my god) and other such initialisms was 19th. C. I would imagine that includes :)
- mipmap04 10y agoAlso interesting, there is a set of telegraphic codes used to decrease the size of messages due to cost: http://people.eku.edu/styere/Encrypt/ABC4/ http://people.eku.edu/styere/Encrypt/ABC4/ Definitely has to be one of the earliest examples of electronic signal compression.
- Scaevolus 10y agoEven beyond explicit codebooks, telegraph operators extensively used standardized abbreviations, meaning what they actually sent/received was remarkably similar to SMS text-speak, for obvious reasons! "Wr r ty gg r 9" => "Where are they going for No. 9?": http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2015/05/11/history_of_telegraph_operators_abbreviations_used_by_telegraphers.html http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2015/05/11/history_of_t...
- d_theorist 10y agoDo you have a source for this?
- deleted 10y ago[deleted]