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Re:Ask YC (and PG): What books do you have on your bookshelf? by doubleplus on Wednesday July 09, 2008 @12:58AM (#240805)
I just like books with post-colonic explanatory subtitles, but it looks like I'll be taken care of as well.

Yes, I made that word up.

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Re:Ask YC (and PG): What books do you have on your bookshelf? by pg on Wednesday July 09, 2008 @08:32PM (#241836)
You could call them prolapsed titles.
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Re:Ask YC (and PG): What books do you have on your bookshelf? by MaysonL on Wednesday July 09, 2008 @09:12PM (#241868)
Interestingly enough, W.P. Montague's book The Way of Knowing, had a post-sesquicolonic explanatory subtitle:

The way of knowing;: Or, the methods of philosophy

at least in early editions, the sesquicolon seems to have been replaced by a mere comma in the latest reprintings.

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Re:Ask YC (and PG): What books do you have on your bookshelf? by jauco on Wednesday July 09, 2008 @06:29AM (#240970)
"colons: why bother to come up with clear title when you can explain yourself"

From the same author as "How to become extremely successful at writing self-help books"

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