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More typographical dorkery
Published at 21:30, Wed 20 Feb 2008
Perhaps this is a little too much Unicode for one day, but, well, that’s life.
John Gruber links to an amusing proposed typographical term, also available as a t-shirt. In plain text, it looks like this:
Unicode fun
Published at 11:06, Wed 20 Feb 2008
The Unicode character U+029A ʚ is named LATIN SMALL LETTER CLOSED OPEN E.
Both CLOSED and OPEN? That’s a neat trick.
Spanish phonology and American accents
Published at 22:21, Mon 15 Oct 2007
Among native speakers of American English who are learning Spanish, there’s a natural error that can easily mark them out as non-native Spanish speakers, and that seems to be fairly common. It’s all about the pronunciation and behaviour of the coronal consonants /t/ and /d/.