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To what end? Do you suspect that the author thinks there was another letter of the alphabet in the 18th century?
by crux 16y ago
To what end? Do you suspect that the author thinks there was another letter of the alphabet in the 18th century?
- dfranke 16y agoNo. I merely think he's missing the forest for the trees by preserving one obsolete typographic detail in a historical text yet translating the whole thing into HTML with minimal styling. This is somewhat akin to completely remodeling a 100-year-old building yet insisting on preserving the original knob-and-tube electrical wiring for authenticity -- you lose all the original charm yet you're still stuck replacing fuses twice a day and offending your readers every time the word 'succor' appears.
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- ugh 16y agoSo “proper” just refers to your aesthetic preference, not to any actual rule?
- dfranke 16y agoUh, somewhere in between, I think. I'm contending that one way is logical, conventional, and clear, and the other way is illogical, odd, and confusing. I think that's a stronger statement than just an aesthetic preference, but I'm not citing anyone else's prescription.
- ugh 16y agoI don’t get it. Seems awfully petty. It just a blogger and what he did is not in any way wrong. I could understand you if he had made any statement to the effect that everyone should do it like him but he absolutely did not.