On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Denis Jacquerye <[email protected]> wrote: > Are you sure it's not the opposite? Dorsey had a typewriter that > didn't have his turned letters, so he used crossed lines below to > indicate what letters should be turned when printed.
I don't have a source to refer to, but two things make me find my memory more likely here. One, this work was done in 1881 and there were no field-portable typewriters then; IIRC, typewriters as a whole were rare and he probably sent in his work handwritten. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sholes_and_Glidden_typewriter leads me to think that Dorsey may never have used a typewriter. Secondly, linguists are always more ambitious about scripts then printers; a linguist could certainly come up with a better script then this, and I find it much more likely it was pounded into shape by the printers. -- Kie ekzistas vivo, ekzistas espero.
