Re: Apostrophe, and DIN keyboard

From: Robert Wheelock <rwhlk142_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 15:53:12 -0400

On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 8:42 AM, Andreas Prilop <prilop4321_at_trashmail.net>wrote:

> On Mon, 13 Aug 2012, Otto Stolz wrote:
>
> >> http://www.machsmit.de/media/mainteaser/header-ichwillserleben.png
> >> http://www.machsmit.de/kampagne/printmedien.php
> >> show what the braindead German DIN keyboard layout has done to
> >> the apostrophe (’): Killed by the acute accent (´).
> >
> > Andreas’ example does not present any evidence that
> > an acute accent is involved. It could as well be a
> > real U+2019 apostrophe, rendered in a slanted, sanserif
> > font. As the text is presented in PNG, i. e. grafic,
> > format, you really cannot tell the difference.
>
> You are typographically challenged. People who understand fonts
> better than you will recognize Helvetica Condensed Black Oblique.
> http://store1.adobe.com/type/browser/gifs/HLVQ/C_HLVQ-70019100.GIF
> http://www.fonts.com/font/adobe/helvetica/condensed-black-oblique
>
> It is really sad that even academic persons today cannot see
> the difference between an apostrophe (’) and an acute accent (´).
>
>
—Reply—
Quite a shame indeed! (Agonistes!) The same kind of awkwardness exists in
modern monotonic Greek writing, where the *tonos* (overtick, Knappen's
*universal
accent*) gets confused with the true *oxeia* (acute accent)! Much less, to
have them confused—further still—with modern quotation marks and
apostrophes...

Robert Lloyd Wheelock
International Symbolism Research Institute
Augusta, ME U.S.A.
Received on Tue Aug 14 2012 - 14:58:03 CDT

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0 : Tue Aug 14 2012 - 14:58:05 CDT