Julian, if you look closely, it is not actually a turned s, but something created with a turned s in mind. In the very sort of the alphabet, the regular s has equal (or near-equal) top and bottom bowls. the "turned" one has an emphasized upper bowl, which of course stems from the idea of a turned s (as some fonts have a larger bowl lower bowl of s for balance), but it is quite clearly not a turned s as identity, but rather something _inspired_ by a turned s.
On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 11:05 PM, Julian Bradfield <[email protected]>wrote: > David Starner wrote: > >LATIN SMALL LETTER ROTATED P was used; see > >http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BAE-Siouan_Alphabet.png . It > >has caused some whimpering among those trying to transcribe the text. > > Urk! And there's rotated "s" as well. > > Alright, I take it back. There is no limit to the barminess of script > inventors. > Obviously what we need are combining marks whose visual effect > is reversing/rotating the previous glyph. No, I didn't say that, I > really didn't say that... > > -- > The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in > Scotland, with registration number SC005336. > > >
