From: Asmus Freytag (asmusf@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Fri Sep 28 2007 - 22:17:14 CDT
On 9/28/2007 4:23 PM, James Kass wrote:
> William J. Poser wrote,
>
>
>> If the Christian fish is encoded, I demand equal space for the Darwin fish.
>>
>
> Shouldn't the latter be considered a glyph variant of the former?
>
Glyph variants that have diametrically opposite semantics? I know you
are a font designer, but that seems to be stretching things a bit - or
was that still meant in the April Fools' Day context?
> However, the Christian fish symbol has currency; its use is widespread.
> It is just as likely a character as CHI RHO, CADUCEUS, STAR AND
> CRESCENT, or SKULL AND CROSSBONES.
>
There is something to that view. I think one of my earlier postings had
a "not" missing. At least the quoted text seems to say the opposite of
what I thought I was saying....
A./
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