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Re: Cases (Klingon & Hebrew) REPOST
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Mon Apr 19 17:34:35 1993
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From: laibow@brick.purchase.edu (Marnen Laibow-Koser )
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@village.boston.ma.us>
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 93 15:11:20 EDT
In-Reply-To: <m0nkxWM-0001IkC@snark.thyrsus.com>; from "John Cowan" at Apr 19,
John Cowan says:
:
: > It's the ugliest thing you ever saw and looks different enough
: > from conventional Hebrew fonts that if I came across it without knowing wha
t it
: > was, Hebrew would be the last thing to cross my mind: it looks like a demen
ted
: > vision of Cyrillic or (for those who remember the Hitchhiker's Guide text
: > adventure) the Vogon Order for Destruction.
:
: You might be interested in the Times Cyrillic, Greek Optima, and Hebrew
: Helvetica fonts on p. 286 of Hofstadter's >Metamagical Themas<
: (LC Q335.H63-1985/ISBN o-465-04540-5). It also probably appeared in
: Hofstadter's column of the same name in >Scientific American<, August 1982,
: though I can't check this directly.
I saw those fonts. Those at least _look_ like those scripts should look. Caslon
Hebrew, on the other hand, doesn't look like Hebrew: it looks like Roman with a
lot of reversed letters. It's awful!
:
: --
: John Cowan cowan@snark.thyrsus.com ...!uunet!lock60!snark!cowan
: e'osai ko sarji la lojban.
:
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