On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 8:42 AM, Andreas Prilop <prilop4...@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.
