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Alternative universe where capital letters were stored in bottom case and small ones in the top one, so we would develop naming “THIS” lower-case and “this” upper-case

That would be fucked up, wouldn’t it?

Like 16 October at 9:08 | Open on mastodon.online

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@nikitonsky I’m sure a lot of typesetters would have revolted because it would have inconvenienced their daily work immensely.

16 October at 9:14 | Open on haz.pink

Xyrill

@nikitonsky I’m guessing that you are in Leipzig? I saw a similar exhibit at the Museum of Printing Artifice there.

16 October at 10:09 | Open on digitalcourage.social

@xyrill no this is from Wikipedia

16 October at 10:39 | Open on mastodon.online

Dimitri

@nikitonsky left case

17 October at 10:12 | Open on mastodon.sdf.org

@eugensson could’ve happen too!

17 October at 10:51 | Open on mastodon.online

Dimitri

@nikitonsky could've been anything. "Red case"? Easily. Or even something weird like "Sussex/Flemish case" due to some random historical peculiarity of early British and Belgian letter type practices.

17 October at 11:03 | Open on mastodon.sdf.org

@nikitonsky I suspect it wouldn't have caught on.

17 October at 20:38 | Open on sueden.social