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The following poem appeared in the May/June 1990 issue of Infocus magazine and has since been floating around the Internet. The original authors were Fred Bremmer and Steve Kroese of Calvin College & Seminary of Grand Rapids, Michigan.

A poll conducted among Infocus readers had established “waka” as the proper pronunciation for the angle-bracket characters < and >, though some readers held out resolutely for “norkies.”

< > ! * ' ' #
^ " ` $ $ -
! * = @ $ _
% * < > ~ # 4
& [ ] . . /
| { , ,
 SYSTEM HALTED


The poem can only be appreciated by reading it aloud, to wit:

    <  >  !   *  '  '  #
     Waka waka bang splat tick tick hash,

    ^  "    `    $   $  -
     Caret quote back-tick dollar dollar dash,

    !  *  =  @  $    _
     Bang splat equal at dollar under-score,

    %   *   <  >  ~   #   4
     Percent splat waka waka tilde number four,

     &     [    ]   . .  /
     Ampersand bracket bracket dot dot slash,

     |       {      ,    ,   SYSTEM HALTED
     Vertical-bar curly-bracket comma comma CRASH.

Waka Waka What ??

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Tue, 07 Apr 2009 03:10:00 -0700 The Way the Future Blogs, an online memoir by science fiction writer Frederik Pohl http://wanderlink.posterous.com/the-way-the-future-blogs-an-online-memoir-by http://wanderlink.posterous.com/the-way-the-future-blogs-an-online-memoir-by

OMG!! Frederik Pohl is blogging! (If you are a SciFi Lit fan, this will matter to you a lot)

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