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> So while we have two i’s (upper and lower), they have four 1. i 2. I > No, we don’t have four i’s in Turkish. I(ı) and İ(i) are two separate letters 1. ı
by CemDK 1y ago
> So while we have two i’s (upper and lower), they have four
1. i
2. I
> No, we don’t have four i’s in Turkish. I(ı) and İ(i) are two separate letters
1. ı
2. I
3. i
4. İ
--> 4
- jccalhoun 1y agothat's like saying l and I are the same letters because they look similar in some sans serif fonts.
- jofla_net 1y agomumble mumble forest ... mumble mumble trees
- somat 1y agoearly typewriters had no 0 or 1, you were expected to use I or O. So at least there they were the same letter. There was a great article posted here not too long ago about the actual origin of the qwerty keyboard, spoiler, it was not actually designed to slow typing down. Anyway a fun fact found in that article was why "I" is where it is. An early adopter of the typewriter was a telegraph transcription company. and they wanted "I" moved near the end of the numbers so using it as a "1" they could type the 18 in 1875 quicker. https://repository.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/dspace/bitstream/2433/139379/1/42_161.pdf https://repository.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/dspace/bitstream/2433...
- nkrisc 1y agoBut you're comparing two cases of one letter to two cases of two letters. Of course two letters have, in aggregate, more glyphs than one letter.
- NooneAtAll3 1y ago[translated from latin] So while we have two i's, they have four 1. i 2. I No, we don't have four i's in English, I(i) and J(j) are two separate letters 1. i 2. I 3. j 4. J --> 4
- Dylan16807 1y agoI would unironically agree with that if people still spoke latin.
- ccppurcell 1y agoThis is the same as saying we have four o's in English: o, O, q, Q. Two with a tail, two without.
- MengerSponge 1y agoWhen you remember to include (b, d, p, and P), we have more than two tailed-o characters in English!
- RandallBrown 1y agoIn the default HN font, those are more tailed Ds than Os.
- ccppurcell 1y agoAgreed except that the capital B D and P are not easy to describe as modifications of the capital O (even lower case q is a stretch but the point stands)