Longcol Posted December 10, 2010 Share Posted December 10, 2010 Inspired - if that's the right word - by the square root of zero and pi = 4 threads - I've one for the linguistics people. Why are the letters D/G when capitalised the other way from the lower case d/g? No other letters in the alphabet behave the same - any reason why? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hard2miss Posted December 10, 2010 Share Posted December 10, 2010 Inspired - if that's the right word - by the square root of zero and pi = 4 threads - I've one for the linguistics people. Why are the letters D/G when capitalised the other way from the lower case d/g? No other letters in the alphabet behave the same - any reason why? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G Not sure but I surmise from the link that G is formed from C and if you further down it says that g is believed to have come front the letter j It does not say that as such but maybe its just 2 similar sounding letters that got formed into 1 ? So G, = C, sounding 'Gee' And g, = j, sounding 'guh' ??? It'll do for me anyhow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quisquose Posted December 10, 2010 Share Posted December 10, 2010 I always capitalise the letter "o" the other way round as "O". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
telman Posted December 10, 2010 Share Posted December 10, 2010 Don't worry about it. have a nice cup of tea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phanerothyme Posted December 10, 2010 Share Posted December 10, 2010 Inspired - if that's the right word - by the square root of zero and pi = 4 threads - I've one for the linguistics people. Why are the letters D/G when capitalised the other way from the lower case d/g? No other letters in the alphabet behave the same - any reason why? Can you explain that more clearly? lower case d, upper case D - how is it "the other way"? Sorry for being dense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
euclid Posted December 10, 2010 Share Posted December 10, 2010 Sorry for being dense. Errrm me too..my head has just exploded Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Posted December 10, 2010 Share Posted December 10, 2010 If I understand correctly Longcol is referring to the position of the stem (the vertical stroke) of the letter on the left or right. On an upper case D the stem is on the left but with lower case dthe stem is in the right G and g work the same too. Obviously some have central stems and descenders or bowls in differing places too. But, I dunno. There are lots of ways of presenting type and not many hard and fast rules. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andygardener Posted December 10, 2010 Share Posted December 10, 2010 Doesn't Q and q follow that rule as well? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Posted December 10, 2010 Share Posted December 10, 2010 Q doesn't have a stem though... and err... q has a decender... ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghozer Posted December 10, 2010 Share Posted December 10, 2010 hard2miss's explanation works for me too... but tbh, I'm not really bothered... i'm glad that D is the opposite way to d, and B is the same as b, because it helped me remember which of the lower case is which when I was younger (and on rare occasions still... lol).. ('b' being the same way as the upper case) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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