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Re: Scripting was Re: Pablo is back, Job, Argentina, Relay, Lord of the Rings

From:Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>
Date:Wednesday, January 16, 2002, 18:22
Yes, that would've helped if the medievals, unlike my mother, took care of
above WHICH vertical line the dots go over ...

                                              Andreas

Michael Proxon wrote:
> >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 > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > Join the world's largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. > > http://www.hotmail.com > >
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