@enf @shadychars @widespacer New discoveries in the tricolon mystery.
I found an old Sholes & Glidden document and got it scanned. I see three uses.
1) “semigraphics,” which we knew of before.pic.twitter.com/8pFFHEYRgG
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3) this, which is where I think tricolon is supposed to stand for parentheses?pic.twitter.com/ZHxPzrREQe
…aaaaaand Mark Twain is using the tricolon as parentheses also.pic.twitter.com/GQ17Mqi7QY
Found a 1872 letter from C. L. Sholes himself using a tricolon to construct a dollar sign. Earliest use of tricolon I know of, plus it comes from the inventor!pic.twitter.com/HivmXCINRL
definitely a better dollar sign than S+I. The I is too far off center.
The dollar sign came up in a previous discussion of this topic.
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