the mysterious &lllaos;&lllaos&lllaos;

• Taking action about online Harassment by Tony C., 12/29/97
  • &lllaos;have it your way&lllaos; by John Suler, 12/31/97
    • question by gerald, 1/17/98
      
      

Thanks for asking that question. &lllaos is a glitch, and not a word at all. It happens when some people (like me, sometimes...duh) try to type quotation marks in the title of the message. In fact, you'll probably see three &lllaos's in the title of this message, since I tried to place quotation marks around the word &lllaos. I don't fully understand the technical reasons for this glitch... some kind of problem in the translation of my computer's character set into html.

Is there a lesson to be learned about life in cyberspace from this little quirk?

• language production device by gerald, 1/19/98
• the &lllaos lesson by John Suler, 1/23/98