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> Paralinguistic symbols What’s that? I googled and am still confuzled.
by fmakunbound 4y ago
> Paralinguistic symbols
What’s that? I googled and am still confuzled.
- DonHopkins 4y agoMaybe he means "foo" and "bar", the canonical metasyntactic variables. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasyntactic_variable https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasyntactic_variable
- rileyphone 4y agoYeah, apologies for being a little obtuse. Things that look like words but don't act as typical verbal language.
- Alan_Dillman 4y agoI don't know either, but in English one definition/sense of para is "beyond", so it is "beyond language symbols", which shapes up to be something in the sense of a sort of programming paradigm where everything is subject to redefinition, particularly on the fly.
- samatman 4y agoFor our purposes we can call them 'glyphs' without much, if any, loss of generality.