From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Mon Feb 22 2010 - 03:11:10 CST
On 22 Feb 2010, at 08:43, André Szabolcs Szelp wrote:
> For the (slightly anachronistic, thus characterised as "amusing") use
> of roman numerals in the late 20th century, we can even quote an
> occurence which is linked to Unicode and this list:
>
> | Meanwhile, at the Unicode offices in Silicon Valley, people were
> | impressed with the work by this relative unknown in Ireland. Mr.
> | McGowan remembers the first proposal he received from Mr.
> | Everson, on a particular character in ogham. The first time they met,
> | Mr. McGowan was so captivated by Mr. Everson’s charm and
> | erudition that he saved his name tag. “Michael is a pretty special
> | guy,” he said. “Also, ***he wrote the month with a Roman numeral.***
> | I thought that was amusing.”
It is true. Back then I'd've written 22.ii.2010. (Note the lower-case roman numerals.) But I long ago shifted to ISO 8601 format, 2010-02-22.
Whether it is charming and erudite I cannot say.
Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Mon Feb 22 2010 - 03:14:12 CST