From: Doug Ewell (dewell@adelphia.net)
Date: Fri Sep 23 2005 - 22:51:53 CDT
Kenneth Whistler <kenw at sybase dot com> wrote:
> António said:
>
> > On 2005.09.21, 03:19, Doug Ewell <dewell at adelphia dot net> wrote:
> >
> > >> As Bringhurst say: "Neither typographers nor their tools should labor
> > >> under the sad misapprehension that one will ever mention crêpes
> ^^^^^^^^
> recte: that no one
> > >> flambées or aïoli, no one will have a name like Antonín Dvorák, Søren
> > >> Kierkegaard, Stéphane Mallarmé or Chloë Jones, and no one will live in
> > >> Óbidos or Århus, in Kromeríz or Øster Vrå, Pruhonice or Nagykorös,
> > >> Dalasýsla, Kirkagaç or Köln." (The elements of typographic style,
> > >> version 2.4, page 90)
> >
> > Is it because I have lived in both Óbidos and Århus (and been to Köln and
> > Nagykorös) that I find this quote, however humurous in its intentions, to
> > be deeply unsettling and offensive?
>
> Well, since Doug unfortunately left out a "no" in retyping
> what Bringhurst wrote, I could see why you might find this
> unsettling.
Why am I being credited (or I guess debited in this case) with this quote? Eric
Muller <emuller at adobe dot com> wrote it:
http://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/y2005-m09/0293.html
and I merely replied to it:
http://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/y2005-m09/0294.html
Note the extra set of greater-thans in António's post. It's a quote of a quote.
-- Doug Ewell Fullerton, California http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
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