h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Not so! Many of us still can't put in that symbol! Yawn-making, isn't it?

I don't find that having a lack of that symbol is a handicap in any way at all. A particular stimulation for both mind and digits, to my cogitations.

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As summat of a sluggard in this virtual world of h2g2, I'm sorry to admit that I am only now grasping which symbol it is that various of our "compatriots" lack.

To be fair, I only found this forum today, prior to lunch, so I probably wasn't as slow as many of you!

and I was doing alright too ... damn that symbol ... how did it slip into my last posting ... untrustworthy minion of Satan ... skulking around, adopting changing forms ... damn, blast and drat!

I was particularly quick to suss it out, surprisingly.

It only took two sixty-part fractions of an hour.

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I call that slow!

You would. You and that 200MHz Athlon that you call a brain.

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It was talk of an author that told yours truly which symbol was missing ... prior to that I was struggling.

I had thought it was various punctuation marks at first but soon saw that that wasn't right.

It's such a major part of our arabic originating script that typing without using it, is not insubstantially taxing on my brain. It has a habit of slipping into a word without so much as a hint as to its plans.

In my first posting it hid so convincingly that I didn't spot it until I'd hit Post.

I spotted it fairly quickly having lurked my way through many postings.

I thought it was obvious from post two. Good gag though.