By: Chrysostom
knile: ""That among these are Life, Liberty, and The purfuit of happineff?"" I believe that was also Woody's platform when running for Boston City Council.
View ArticleBy: joeclark
Joe in Oz, encode the actual text, not some fake-ass version you somehow intend to rectify with CSS, an option that doesn't even make sense.
View ArticleBy: hattifattener
> Plenty of letters have multiple ſhapes (lowercaſe g and capital Q being the other two I think of immediately) but in modern written engliſh they uſually don't have ſhapes which depend on poſition...
View ArticleBy: knile
"That among these are Life, Liberty, and The purfuit of happineff?""That's pursuit of happiness.""Well, all your s's look like f's here.""Oh, it's stylish.""Oh I see.""It's in, it's VERY in.""Oh, well,...
View ArticleBy: Casuistry
Out of interest, what was the long-s for? why was it needed? I'm not sure if it was needed, per se, it was just there. In the first millennium CE, there were a few different hands for writing Latin in,...
View ArticleBy: kenko
Come to Iceland, learn Icelandic, we've got you covered. Thorn AND eth! Yowza!
View ArticleBy: Joe in Australia
Joeclark, I'm not sure what you're responding to, but you're refuting an argument I didn't make.
View ArticleBy: joeclark
Joe in Australia is incorrect. You can't use fake replacement characters for your text. An exclamation point is just an apostrophe with a period backspaced under it, is it not? And à is quite obviously...
View ArticleBy: spamguy
Thanks for this. I've been begging for answers since middle school. My English teachers sorta rolled their eyes and forgot I was there.
View ArticleBy: i_have_a_computer
Man, that long s was a pain in the aſs Don't you mean, pain in the aß? ſent from my iPad, with much difficulty.
View ArticleBy: revfitz
Well, the "you almost need a flowchart" contains a bunch of graphs from google's n-gram viewer, so obviously google's OCR doesn't have too much trouble. Those graphs aren't from the n-gram viewer,...
View ArticleBy: Kattullus
Golfhaus: I'll help this guy get long s back into the language if he helps me get Þ back in. Come to Iceland, learn Icelandic, we've got you covered.
View ArticleBy: Joe in Australia
This problem reminds me of the struggle to distinguish between content and presentation in HTML and other markup. If you're transcribing a manuscript for its meaning you may want to use a short-s...
View ArticleBy: kaiserin
OMG. This thread lead me on a journey that ended in the discovery that Hitler was a font Nazi.
View ArticleBy: dhartung
Having to derive the rules statistically actually indicates that the vague rules he started out with were, in fact, vague. My experience with 18th-century English spelling and grammar is decidedly...
View ArticleBy: Golfhaus
I'll help this guy get long s back into the language if he helps me get Þ back in.
View ArticleBy: ricochet biscuit
Hunh. I am always baffled when I learn that others have trouble with archaic English (the long s, the distinction between thou and you, conjugation endings like -est, -eth and so forth) because these...
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