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When you're working from the labour ward

2 September 2009

MANY readers have responded to our request for examples of ergotopography – which, Feedback has decided, is the art of writing symbols that say where you’re working from (25 July).

Unsurprisingly, we received a number of suggestions that are unprintable – either because they use characters or symbols our printers don’t have, or because they would make the magazine illegal in Herat and/or Houston. Perhaps surprisingly, most of the former were also the latter.

Another which may cause the typesetters pause is John Harvey’s “WF    ” for “working from space”. It will also probably stretch your manager’s credulity, unless your business cards…

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