Yeah, I wonder how much of this was planned for. Although here’s a new idea: what if there were no primary uses? What if this was just some sort of a universal weird unclaimed character you could mold to do your bidding?
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Replying to @mwichary @shadychars and
(I don’t buy it myself, since every key was so expensive...)
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Replying to @mwichary @shadychars and
BTW I don’t know what other character could be used for a paren – but then again tricolon was eventually replaced by $ or £ without any other changes, so maybe parents were not that useful.
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A dash?
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But dash exists as a dash already. :·) Or do you mean underscore?
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Sorry - I was thinking more about two hyojens/dashes as a parenthetical em-dash.
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Any thoughts on how to find more text written on this typewriter? Any kind of text? This is so hard. This is literally only the third example I found.
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Now you're asking. Maybe some sort of ML model trained on this source document and run across contemporaneous docs in http://archive.org ?
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Best I can think of is library catalog entries that claim to be typescripts from an appropriate year, for example http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/46613745 or http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/2024956
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Oooh, interesting!
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