There are several sites that lists euphemistic names for characters. A search
for bang splat will show several.
I liked this one:
http://www.terms.co.kr/pronunciationguide.htm

Others (similar) include:
http://free.pages.at/myon/jargon/html/entry/ASCII.html
http://jargon.net/jargonfile/a/ASCII.html

I think there is a poem and/or a song somewhere that uses some of the
character names as part of its composition...

I am either not geeky enough or alzheimers is setting in, but I can't recall
either how it goes or where to find it.
tex


Phillip Driscoll wrote:

>
> > "WWW" is simple, memorable, and catches the public fancy. However, I
> > do wonder whether the person who created it (Tim Berners-Lee?) was
> > fully aware how awkward it would be when spoken frequently in
> > English, where it expands to 9 syllables (my count, not necessarily
> > correct).
> >
> > One practical financial commentator on TV (Louis Rukeyser?), not
> > greatly concerned with awkward correctness, simply said
> > "dub-dub-dub".
>
> It's common for computer geeks to read WWW as "dub dub dub."
>
> > People such as computer programmers sometimes need to read aloud
> > what's on paper, and any symbol that requires more than one
> > syllable to pronounce is likely to quickly be read as an
> > agreed-upon substitute. One that is memorable is "bang" for !.
> > The four-leaved Mac symbol (Command key) (U+2318) was sometimes read
> > as "splat", apparently.
>
> "Bang" for "!" has been used by printers for decades. When Martin Spekter
> invented the symbol which is a combination question mark and exclamation
> point in the 1960s, he named it the "interrobang."
>
> When I was in college in the early 1970s, the asterisk character was spoken
> as "splat" in our computer department.
>
> > This reminds me that I have called the local NPR radio station more
> > than once to tell/teach them that / is *not* a backslash. I told
> > them that if listeners typed in exactly what was spoken, they were
> > guaranteed to fail to reach the Web site.
>
> I justed heard this on a television commercial recently. The screen showed
> a URL with a slash, but the announcer read it as "backslash."
>
> "Recession, repression. It's all the same thing, man."
>
> --Phillip Driscoll
> --near Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
>
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