@mwichary Regarding the tricolon - have you reached out to Donald Knuth?
I'm not willing to bet the house that he would know, but I would say your odds are better than even.
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He has a very diverse background and implemented the most comprehensive typesetting and font rendering software on this Earth. He formatted the tricolon before unicode existed. As such, he may know its origins and use.
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Related - I just learned than
#LaTeX has: \Bart \Homer \Maggie \Marge \Lisa \Burns and puzzlingly... \SNPP \Left\Bart ! pg:177 -> http://tug.ctan.org/info/symbols/comprehensive/symbols-a4.pdf …
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