{"id":172,"date":"2004-12-09T23:59:31","date_gmt":"2004-12-09T22:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/frenchfragfactory.net\/ozh\/archives\/2004\/12\/09\/shift-key-poems\/"},"modified":"2009-10-14T11:34:35","modified_gmt":"2009-10-14T09:34:35","slug":"shift-key-poems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/shift-key-poems\/","title":{"rendered":"Shift Key Poems"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\n\t\t
\n\n\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t< View plain text<\/span> ><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t
code<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t
\n\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t
\n\t\t
  1. <>!*''#<\/div><\/li>\n
  2. ^@`$$-<\/div><\/li>\n
  3. !*'$_<\/div><\/li>\n
  4. %*<>#4<\/div><\/li>\n
  5.  &)..\/<\/div><\/li>\n
  6. |{~~SYSTEM HALTED<\/div><\/li>\n<\/ol>\t<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n

    I came across this about 4 years ago in a Perl mailing list, and I thought it was pretty. The "translation" of this punctuation "poem" is :<\/p>\n

    \n\n\t\t
    \n\n\t\t
    \n\t\t\t\t\t\t< View plain text<\/span> ><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t
    code<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t
    \n\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t
    \n\t\t
    1. Waka waka bang splat tick tick hash,<\/div><\/li>\n
    2. Caret at back-tick dollar dollar dash,<\/div><\/li>\n
    3. Bang splat tick dollar under-score,<\/div><\/li>\n
    4. Percent splat waka waka number four,<\/div><\/li>\n
    5. Ampersand right-paren dot dot slash,<\/div><\/li>\n
    6. Vertical-bar curly-bracket tilde tilde CRASH.<\/div><\/li>\n<\/ol>\t<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n

      I've found another one tonight, as pretty as the first one (and probably as old as well, by the way)
      \n<\/p>\n

      \n\n\t\t
      \n\n\t\t
      \n\t\t\t\t\t\t< View plain text<\/span> ><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t
      code<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t
      \n\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t
      \n\t\t
      1. ^<@<.@*<\/div><\/li>\n
      2. }"_# |<\/div><\/li>\n
      3. -@$&\/_%<\/div><\/li>\n
      4. !(  @|=><\/div><\/li>\n
      5. ;`+$?^?<\/div><\/li>\n
      6. ,#"~|)^G<\/div><\/li>\n<\/ol>\t<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n

        Which "says" : <\/p>\n

        \n\n\t\t
        \n\n\t\t
        \n\t\t\t\t\t\t< View plain text<\/span> ><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t
        code<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t
        \n\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t
        \n\t\t
        1. hat less at less point at star<\/div><\/li>\n
        2. backbrace double base pound space bar<\/div><\/li>\n
        3. dash at cash and slash base rate<\/div><\/li>\n
        4. wow open tab at bar is great<\/div><\/li>\n
        5. semi backquote plus cash huh DEL<\/div><\/li>\n
        6. comma pound double tilde bar close BEL<\/div><\/li>\n<\/ol>\t<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

          Punctuation poems<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[15,2,44,86],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-published","tag-ahah","tag-code","tag-cult","tag-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}