Nice collection of links, here, Neil.
A./
On 2/17/2013 10:52 AM, Neil Harris wrote:
On 17/02/13 10:48, Philippe Verdy wrote:
I was not citing empirical results but things that are regulated by
legislation.
And your existing empirical results are just nfomal tests ignoring
important parts of
Ne vous moquez pas de monsieur Verdy: il s’ agit là du dernier des
Mohicans polymathes ! ☺
Charlie
Op zondag 17 februari 2013 schreef Asmus Freytag:
Would not be the first time that Mr. Verdy's statements are in an
interesting relation to empirically determined results.
:)
A./
Toll, eine dreisprachige Nachricht! Wer macht weiter?
A./
On 2/18/2013 10:25 PM, Charlie Ruland wrote:
Ne vous moquez pas de monsieur Verdy: il s’ agit là du dernier des
Mohicans polymathes ! ☺
Charlie
Op zondag 17 februari 2013 schreef Asmus Freytag:
Would not be the first time that Mr.
Trilingue sì. Perché la lingua madre del signor Verdy è quella francese.
And it was in reply to your English message. En het Nederlands kwam van
Thunderbird. Tja, so kann’s gehen.
对不起。
Charlie
Asmus Freytag:
Toll, eine dreisprachige Nachricht! Wer macht weiter?
A./
On 2/18/2013 10:25 PM,
On 2/16/2013 11:19 PM, Julian Bradfield wrote:
On 2013-02-17, Philippe Verdy verd...@wanadoo.fr wrote:
True lowercase letters are causing problems on road sign indicators on
roads with high speed : they are hard to read and if the driver has to
look at them for one more second, he does not look
I was not citing empirical results but things that are regulated by legislation.
And your existing empirical results are just nfomal tests ignoring
important parts of the population of drivers, notably:
- those driving by night : the effet of some visual defects like
asygmatism, which is only
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Am 17.02.2013 05:40, schrieb Asmus Freytag:
For Germany, look at
http://www.ace-online.de/fileadmin/user_uploads/Der_Club/Presse-Archiv/Bilder/Verkehr/Autobahn/Autobahn_01.jpg
Too bad that this picture is not a few pixels wider,
else you would see
On 2013-02-17, Philippe Verdy verd...@wanadoo.fr wrote:
I was not citing empirical results but things that are regulated by
legislation.
No you weren't - you were making explicit claims that lowercase is
harder to read than capitals. You said nothing about regulation.
And your existing
On 17/02/13 10:48, Philippe Verdy wrote:
I was not citing empirical results but things that are regulated by legislation.
And your existing empirical results are just nfomal tests ignoring
important parts of the population of drivers, notably:
- those driving by night : the effet of some visual
Hello,
Am 16.02.2013 11:48, schrieb Stephan Stiller:
Or a non-name example: Buße (repentance)
vs Busse (buses). But then, non-name examples are far less likely to
remain ambiguous in context.
Years ago, I have seen with my own eyes, in a Swiss magazine
(where they consistently replace “ß”
Or a non-name example: Buße (repentance)
vs Busse (buses). But then, non-name examples are far less likely to
remain ambiguous in context.
A reason why Jukka's original example – like most proper name examples –
was better than mine is that it's truly minimal in that context will
really not
2013/2/16 Stephan Stiller stephan.stil...@gmail.com:
Of course in my worldview, all-caps writing is deprecated :-)
This is a presentation style which makes words more readable in some
conditions, notably on plates displayed on roads (cities are extremely
rarely written in lowercase, as this is
On 2013-02-16, Philippe Verdy verd...@wanadoo.fr wrote:
2013/2/16 Stephan Stiller stephan.stil...@gmail.com:
Of course in my worldview, all-caps writing is deprecated :-)
This is a presentation style which makes words more readable in some
conditions, notably on plates displayed on roads
Another solution is also used: Capitals written as Big capitals, and
lowercase written as small capitals (i.e. just a minor font size
reduction).
True lowercase letters are causing problems on road sign indicators on
roads with high speed : they are hard to read and if the driver has to
look at
On 2/16/2013 12:06 PM, Philippe Verdy wrote:
2013/2/16 Stephan Stiller stephan.stil...@gmail.com:
Of course in my worldview, all-caps writing is deprecated :-)
This is a presentation style which makes words more readable in some
conditions, notably on plates displayed on roads (cities are
On 2013-02-17, Philippe Verdy verd...@wanadoo.fr wrote:
True lowercase letters are causing problems on road sign indicators on
roads with high speed : they are hard to read and if the driver has to
look at them for one more second, he does not look at the road.
AS I SAID, empirical evaluation
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