Re: German »ß«

On 2/16/2013 11:19 PM, Julian Bradfield wrote:
> On 2013-02-17, Philippe Verdy <verdy_p_at_wanadoo.fr> wrote:
>> True lowercase letters are causing problems on road sign indicators on
>> roads with high speed : they are hard to read and if the driver has to
>> look at them for one more second, he does not look at the road.
> AS I SAID, empirical evaluation by those who had good cause to care
> about the issue indicates the opposite, that people take longer to
> read all caps (as is also the case in normal text).
> This evaluation was done specifically for high speed roads. It
> included live testing on one motorway.
>
Would not be the first time that Mr. Verdy's statements are in an
interesting relation to empirically determined results.

:)

A./
Received on Sun Feb 17 2013 - 03:10:49 CST