Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 01:09:44 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> To: phk@critter.freebsd.dk (Poul-Henning Kamp) Cc: joe@pavilion.net (Joe Karthauser), ben@scientia.demon.co.uk (Ben Smithurst), dan@langille.org (Dan Langille), imp@village.org (Warner Losh), asami@FreeBSD.org (Satoshi Asami), cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports INDEX Message-ID: <200005080809.BAA24308@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <16472.957772140@critter.freebsd.dk> from Poul-Henning Kamp at "May 8, 2000 09:49:00 am"
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> In message <20000507231101.L38795@pavilion.net>, Joe Karthauser writes: > > >> I'd go with the second... I heard it was from old printing things when > >> you had to manually put the different characters in place, people often > >> got p and q mixed up as they're almost symmetrical. Not only that when your setting type the old fashion way with slugs your looking at mirror images of the character. The saying should really be ``mind your p's and q's and b's and d's''. If you want to see just how confusing this can get on the brain print this out and hold it up to a mirror: paul told david to quit babling pdqb qdpb The other common error was to set the letter in the tray upside down, sometimes leading to humor's results. Things like park -> bark :-), for ``he parked at the curb'' -> ``he barked at the curb''. > > I can vote for this one, there is a verse containing sound advice > for typographers, and the p/q thing is one of the lines. I don't > know if I still have it around anywhere. > > -- > Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 > phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 > FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe > Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. > > -- Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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