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Shady characters
Keith Houston · 初版 2013 年
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在 Shady Characters 中，Keith Houston 穿行于排版印刷史的各个隐秘角落，从亚历山大图书馆一直探寻到贝尔实验室的殿堂，铺陈出一条引人入胜的探索之路。无论是考察 asterisk (*) 与 dagger (†) 这对注释符号，果敢的 pilcrow (¶) 与谦卑的 ampersand (&)，还是因互联网而重获新生的 at sign (@) 与 octothorpe (#)，Shady Characters 都会让所有珍视书写生活中那些未知与惊喜的读者大饱眼福。
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虽然它没有专门讲分号的章节，但推荐看看《Shady Characters》这本书。https://amazon.com/dp/0393064425
Although it does not have a chapter on the semicolon, check out the book "Shady Characters". https://amazon.com/dp/0393064425
> 这个符号对你来说也很迷人吗！那这个呢 . 还是这个？是的，它们背后都有着有趣的历史，比如《Shady Characters》（https://wwnorton.com/books/shady-characters/）就讲了关于它们的一些非常精彩的内容。
> Is this symbol also fascinating to you ! How about this one . or this one ? Yes, they've got interesting histories, and, for example, Shady characters (https://wwnorton.com/books/shady-characters/) has some fascinating things to say about them.
这似乎是对 Houston 那本（极其精彩的）书《Shady Characters》的简要摘录。正如文末简短提到的，他有一个很有意思的博客，讨论了更多内容：http://www.shadycharacters.co.uk 。
This appears to be a lightly summarised excerpt of Houston's (fascinating) book "Shady Characters". As mentioned briefly at the end of the article, he has an interesting blog where he discusses more: http://www.shadycharacters.co.uk .
我也推荐一下 Keith Houston 的好书《Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, & Other Typographical Marks》：https://shadycharacters.co.uk/books/shady-characters-the-boo... 他还会定期在他的博客上发文讨论……
Might I also recommend Keith Houston's wonderful book "Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, & Other Typographical Marks": https://shadycharacters.co.uk/books/shady-characters-the-boo... He also posts, with some regularity, to his blog on the…
Keith Houston 风趣好玩的书《Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks》中也探讨了这一点。书中追溯了其他一些常见符号的历史，比如 @ 符号（at sign）和星号（asterisk）。
This is also considered in Keith Houston's entertaining book Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks. It traces the history of some other common symbols such as the at sign and asterisk.
摘自 Keith Houston 写的《Shady Characters》：“在提罗速记符号（Tiro’s notae）中，有一个不起眼的符号代表拉丁语单词 et，即‘和’。虽然这只是众多符号中的一个（在它们最繁复的中世纪形态中，一套系统……
From the book “Shady Characters” by Keith Houston "Among Tiro’s notae was an innocuous character representing the Latin word et, or “and.” Though this was only one symbol among many (in their most elaborate medieval form, a system…