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"Il est beau comme la retractilité des serres des oiseaux rapaces [...] et surtout, comme la rencontre fortuite sur une table de dissection d'une machine à coudre et d'un parapluie !" -- Lautréamont
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"Il est beau comme la retractilité des serres des oiseaux rapaces [...] et surtout, comme la rencontre fortuite sur une table de dissection d'une machine à coudre et d'un parapluie !" -- Lautréamont
Thursday April 20, 2006
02:33 AM
HULG̲ÁHLG̲HÁLUG̲HÁLUG̲HLUÁÁHLÁ
Dear Log,
Whoever decided to have g-underlines in the writing systems for some Alaskan languages was not thinking in terms of happy fonts!
Getting the "_" to play nice with the bottom of the "g" is just painful. In half the fonts I've been adapting, I've had to just use a smallcaps G for the basis of the g-underline.
OH THE PAIN.
Ahwell, could be worse: could be Vietnamese.
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Hard == Thai (Score:1)
May the curse of a thousand years fall upon the fruit of your loins! (Actually, that says "King Ramkhamhaeng the Great".)
Reading about it [wikipedia.org] is like getting an exercise in pain.
Re:Hard == Thai (Score:2)
When people ask me what languages have the scariest writing systems, I usually say Gaelic and Tibetan, but really Thai gives both those a run for their money. But it's a close race, because each brings its own extra menace to the difficulty of the writing system: Gaelic brings its horrible