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Re: Has the U.K gone Shadowmancer mad?
Posted by: poetscientistdrinker (---.cache.pol.co.uk)
Date: August 03, 2003 11:27AM

I reckon El Pollo Diablo could actually be the hot new publishing sensation - it's a great title for a magazine or something...



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Re: Has the U.K gone Shadowmancer mad?
Posted by: Intrigue (---.vic.bigpond.net.au)
Date: August 03, 2003 12:13PM

I'm afraid LucasArts might own his rights, like with Murray the Demonic Skull.

"FEAR ME, I AM OMNIPOTENT!"
"What are you gonna do, bite my ankle?"



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Those who forget the pasta are doomed to reheat it.

Re: Has the U.K gone Shadowmancer mad?
Posted by: AnnMarie (---.104.220.192.ptr.us.xo.net)
Date: August 03, 2003 03:21PM

*big sigh of frustration* The US release isn't until Feb 2004. I was better off not knowing.

Re: Has the U.K gone Shadowmancer mad?
Posted by: Nicky (---.chi.il.dial.anet.com)
Date: August 03, 2003 03:40PM

AnneMarie, you still don't have WOLP? I have 2 words for you, young lady, Amazon.uk. Erm, not sure those were actually words, but you know what I meant.


Re: Has the U.K gone Shadowmancer mad?
Posted by: kaz (139.134.58.---)
Date: August 04, 2003 12:45AM

Intrigue, I am concerned. You speak French, you speak Spanish. What other languages do you speak at your tragically young age?


Re: Has the U.K gone Shadowmancer mad?
Posted by: Intrigue (---.netspace.net.au)
Date: August 04, 2003 06:24AM

I don't speak l'Espanol. I just play the Monkey Island games.

I do know French, Latin and the Japanese alphabet.



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Re: Has the U.K gone Shadowmancer mad?
Posted by: kaz (139.134.58.---)
Date: August 04, 2003 08:43AM

If I knew how to say 'show-off' in any of the above languages I would.


Re: Has the U.K gone Shadowmancer mad?
Posted by: Intrigue (---.vic.bigpond.net.au)
Date: August 04, 2003 08:46AM

Cabron is Mexican for billy-goat...



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Re: Has the U.K gone Shadowmancer mad?
Posted by: kaz (139.134.58.---)
Date: August 04, 2003 08:52AM

Fine. I'll call you a 'cabron' then.


BTW, isn't Spanish the official language of Mexico. Therefore there is no language called "Mexican". Just a brief bit of pedantry there.


Re: Has the U.K gone Shadowmancer mad?
Posted by: Intrigue (---.vic.bigpond.net.au)
Date: August 04, 2003 11:19AM

Hijole!¡No puedo trampearle!



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Re: Has the U.K gone Shadowmancer mad?
Posted by: Simon (---.westsussex.gov.uk)
Date: August 04, 2003 01:30PM

Intrigue _
How do you get that inverted exclamation mark? It doesn't seem to be in the range of symbols available, for insertion into text, in the versions of Windows installed on any of the computers that I've been using (and I want to use it in some of the languages from a SF background that I'm designing...).

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Re: Has the U.K gone Shadowmancer mad?
Posted by: Intrigue (---.netspace.net.au)
Date: August 04, 2003 11:24PM

It comes up automatically from language translators - as I said, I don't know Spanish.



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Re: Has the U.K gone Shadowmancer mad?
Posted by: poetscientistdrinker (---.cache.pol.co.uk)
Date: August 04, 2003 11:28PM

Simon - hold down ALT and then type 0161

I found out using the Character map in accessories...



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Re: Has the U.K gone Shadowmancer mad?
Posted by: kaz (139.134.58.---)
Date: August 05, 2003 01:13AM

When I do that the computer just dings at me.


Re: Has the U.K gone Shadowmancer mad?
Posted by: Sarah B (---.cable.ubr06.dudl.blueyonder.co.uk)
Date: August 05, 2003 10:48AM

¡ Wow. Just to prove I can really...

Know any others?



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Re: Has the U.K gone Shadowmancer mad?
Posted by: KT (---.in-addr.btopenworld.com)
Date: August 05, 2003 11:01AM

¿ - alt 0191
§ - alt 0167
© - alt 0169

Re: Has the U.K gone Shadowmancer mad?
Posted by: Sarah B (---.cable.ubr06.dudl.blueyonder.co.uk)
Date: August 05, 2003 11:32AM

Cool...



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Re: Has the U.K gone Shadowmancer mad?
Posted by: Ptolemy (217.205.174.---)
Date: August 05, 2003 11:52AM

There's a complete list (and more besides if you trawl backwards from the URL below) at

[www.starr.net]

Re: Has the U.K gone Shadowmancer mad?
Posted by: Simon (---.westsussex.gov.uk)
Date: August 05, 2003 01:15PM

Thanks! I use Character Map sometimes too, but hadn't seen that particular symbol listed. (Pause while Simon tries to follow the instructions...)
OK, that works, although the symbol produced (on this computer) looks more like a lower-case letter 'I' than an inverted exclamation mark to me... Maybe it will be more distinctly different when I'm using 'Word' rather than here in the fforum...

ALT 0161 -> ¡
lower-case 'I' -> i

Do any of you know offhand how I can get the lower-case letter 'C' with a sort of wavy line over it that's used in Magyar & maybe some other East European languages? I'm updating my catalogue of my CD collection, and need this symbol if I'm going to type the names of some of the musicians correctly...

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Re: Has the U.K gone Shadowmancer mad?
Posted by: jon (---.abel.net.uk)
Date: August 05, 2003 01:34PM

Simon; what always works for me is to cut and paste the thing from somewhere else, then save all the copied symbol/letter combinations in a doc somewhere. Like this:

þus cwæð Jon.



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