Re: Fish (was Re: Marks)

From: Asmus Freytag (asmusf@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Fri Sep 28 2007 - 22:17:14 CDT

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    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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