Re: CHAT: Miscellaneous Nonsense

On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Danny Wier wrote:

>First of all, why is a "studio apartment" called "studio"?
Perhaps because artists work in studios. Starving artists
work in their apartments; thus their apartments are, in
fact, studio-apartments. Your's is truly a studio apartment
cos you're an artist working in your studio.

>Some features of this script include the use of the elongated S and
>ligatures (like fi, fl, st, German sz > ß).  Also, the thorn and edh I
>might revive (or at least the former as an abbreviation of "the", of
>course also using the ampersand and at signs).
You use long ess, too!? I do only in cursive. I also use
thorn, but not if I have to turn the paper over for someone
else to read, cos they wouldn't know what it is.

>For influence I'm drawing upon old Gaelic and Fraktur varieties of
>Latin, uncial Greek (used for Cyrillic), etc.
You could dot your consonants instead of putting an aitch
after. :)

Padraic.

>Dub.