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

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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