>
>This is the reason we dot i's; back in the middle ages, when black-letter
>script (the style often used to write the phrase "Olde English" in - you
>know, lots of thick vertical lines with diamond block serifs) was heavily
>used, a word like 'minimum' would consist of nothing more than 15 vertical
>lines scribed closely together and would have been extremely hard to
>decipher. Dotting each 'i' improved readability.
>Mike
> > > <rant>I personally find Cyrillic rather difficult at times,
> > >especially if the typesetting is poor. The letters for sh, shch, ts, i,
> > >p, and n can all run together if placed too close to each other. And
> > >don't get me started on handwriting! I forget which, but there is a
> > >Russian word that when written cursively is little more that "UUUUUUUU"
> > >or something like that (as best as I can represent handwriting in ASCII
> > >text).</rant>
> > In my mother's handwriting the word "aluminium" looks like "aluuuuuuu"
>with
> > a coupla dots above the u's. And my signature tends to degenerate at the
> > end, so that the final "sson" tends more resemble "no-" ...
> >
> > Andreas
> >
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