On 1/4/06, Tristan McLeay <conlang@...> wrote:
> Well, most fonts here are the same as most fonts there, so yeah :) I
> imagine the best diagnostic there is handwriting.
...which is also usually single-slashed.
> Yeah, on my keyboard it's Compose | c. Also Compose - L for the pound
> sign and Compose = L for the lira sign, Compose = E for the euro...
> Probably others too. This compose key is very convenient for creating
> nifty mnemonics.
Alt-4 for ¢ has mnemonic value because shift-4 is $. Similarly, the
pound sterling on alt-3 makes sense because shift-3 is the other
"pound" symbol #.
> Ph. D. and Ray also corrected me about my fourteen pence. My bad! I got
> confused between twelve pence to a shilling and twenty shillings to a
> pound!
See? This is why decimal divisons, like the US has had since the
inception of our currency, make so much more sense. You backwards
furriners ... ;-)
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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>