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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Re: his little asterisk #130886 07/31/2004 8:16 PM Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 1,475 California jheem veteran jheem veteran Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 1,475 California Finally, someone actually® uses an asterisk as it's *supposed. I've never quite figured out what this board's unique usage of the asterisk is. I've seen it used in olden times gone by as a marker of footnotes; in linguistics it first marked hypothetical reconstructions and second ungrammatical sentences; after finding onlinehood asterisks delimited some sort of emphasis. But now here I see a single asterisk, prepended to a word, and I gotta wonder. Is there a locus classicus for this usage? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Share Post on Reddit Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted You gotta see this! TEd Remington 07/29/2004 8:44 PM Re: You gotta see this! Faldage 07/30/2004 10:59 AM Re: You gotta see this! Father Steve 07/30/2004 12:41 PM Re: You gotta see this! AnnaStrophic 07/30/2004 12:45 PM Re: You gotta see this! Buffalo Shrdlu 07/30/2004 12:51 PM Re: You gotta see this! nancyk 07/30/2004 1:57 PM Re: You gotta see this! Faldage 07/30/2004 9:43 PM Somebody pinch me musick 07/31/2004 4:30 PM Re: his little asterisk jheem 07/31/2004 8:16 PM Re: his little asterisk AnnaStrophic 07/31/2004 8:44 PM Re: his little asterisk jheem 07/31/2004 9:29 PM Re: his little asterisk Faldage 07/31/2004 9:41 PM Re: half asterisk jheem 07/31/2004 10:04 PM *his little asterisk musick 07/31/2004 9:30 PM Re: *his little asterisk jheem 07/31/2004 10:05 PM Where 'de' and 'pre' fork in the script musick 07/31/2004 10:20 PM Re: ubi defututus est? jheem 07/31/2004 10:38 PM Re: ubi defututus est? musick 07/31/2004 11:01 PM Re: semper ubi sub ubi jheem 07/31/2004 11:48 PM Re: got me to riffing Jackie 08/06/2004 1:13 PM Re: got me to riffing jheem 08/06/2004 1:44 PM Re: got me to riffing tsuwm 08/06/2004 2:01 PM Re: got me to riffing jheem 08/06/2004 2:43 PM Re: got me to riffing belMarduk 08/06/2004 2:48 PM Re: got me to riffing jheem 08/06/2004 2:57 PM Naughty words shanks 07/30/2004 5:12 PM This is unbelievable! TEd Remington 07/30/2004 6:41 PM Re: This is unbelievable! Buffalo Shrdlu 07/30/2004 9:41 PM Re: This is unbelievable! TEd Remington 07/30/2004 10:00 PM Re: This is unbelievable! Buffalo Shrdlu 07/30/2004 10:08 PM Re: You gotta see this! musick 07/30/2004 3:43 PM Re: You gotta see this! AnnaStrophic 07/30/2004 4:02 PM A sinister aspect: TEd Remington 07/30/2004 5:01 PM Re: A sinister aspect: AnnaStrophic 07/30/2004 6:13 PM Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Flat Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary Forum Statistics Forums16 Topics13,915 Posts230,285 Members9,208 Most Online4,606 Sep 17th, 2025 Newest Members JerryC, blvd, Tony Hood, Wood Delivery, Forix Richard 9,208 Registered Users Top Posters(30 Days) wofahulicodoc 23 A C Bowden 6 JerryC 1 Top Posters wwh 13,858 Faldage 13,803 Jackie 11,613 wofahulicodoc 11,140 tsuwm 10,542 LukeJavan8 9,974 Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210 AnnaStrophic 6,511 Wordwind 6,296 of troy 5,400

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