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2:16 AM
@IsaacMoses This person actually registered an account, though
@IsaacMoses You can thank @DoubleAA for a 100 point bounty and then another 200 point bounty that have attracted attention
 
 
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4:57 AM
@DoubleAA judaism.stackexchange.com/posts/190/revisions You offered a bounty to reward an existing answer, and then let Community pick a new one?
 
Whoops! The bounty auto awarded itself over Shabbat! My bad. Let's try this again. — Double AA ♦ 2 days ago
 
@DoubleAA Ah, I hadn't seen.
 
5:24 AM
@msh210 300 rep is not a bad price for 10 quality answers.
Kinda wish all my bounties got even half that many answers
 
5:57 AM
@DoubleAA Indeed!
 
 
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10:03 AM
@DoubleAA You can award the bounty after 24 hours - you don't need to wait until the end of the bounty period.
 
 
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11:33 AM
I saw the headlines and thought not again.
ברוך דיין האמת
 
 
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4:35 PM
BWAHAHA I can downvote now.
 
5:21 PM
@ablaze Mazal Tov! May you go from strength to strength.
 
6:01 PM
@ablaze But if you downvote an answer, you lose it. ;)
 
@DoubleAA Are you trying to start a grammar fight?
 
@DoubleAA I know, but he also made other fixes, so i approved it.
 
@Scimonster I noticed it was you who approved it.
@IsaacMoses No just raising awareness of different people's preferences.
 
@DoubleAA But when people just capitalize "i"s, i reject with a "read my profile" custom reason.
 
@DoubleAA I'm not entirely sure that such preferences should be respected in a community resource ... but that's a whole other row.
 
6:42 PM
...and thanks to the bump of that post, i just earned a Necromancer badge!
 
... which I don't currently have time to get into.
 
@TRiG Grammar row! Grammar row!
 
@IsaacMoses Oh dear.
 
@TRiG I'll bite. Standard English usage is pretty unequivocal on this, and English is the language of discourse on MY. I think correction is in order in our content.
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@IsaacMoses But we tolerate people transliterating Hebrew according to their personal preferences. We don't force people to use American/British English. So what about using lowercase-i-English?
 
6:46 PM
One of my idiosyncrasies is always using dotless-i (ı) in my handwriting.
(So do Irish-language roadsigns, though.)
 
@TRiG Well, that was exactly why it was originally capitalized, because it got lost without the dot.
But now that (most of us) have a dot, we can revert.
 
@Scimonster If there's such a thing as lowercase-i-English, its is very uncommon in English literature. Such a choice is likely to look incorrect to nearly all English-reading readers.
 
@Scimonster In the case of Irish road signs, leaving out the dot was probably to prevent any possibly confusion with í.
Of course, in Irish, i itself is a word. (It means in.)
However, dotless-i is no part of Irish grammar or normal orthography (unlike Turkish). It is simply a display convention for road signs. You won't see it in any other contexts in Irish (except my handwriting, of course).
 
@Scimonster Congrats!
 
@TRiG For road signs to live up to their needs for visibility at a distance, in weather, they'd have to do something pretty wacky to distinguish sufficiently between i and í. Decapitating the former seems like the most reasonable option.
... the US highway authorities take this sort of stuff rather seriously. I assume most countries' do.
 
6:59 PM
> Directional signage is fairly similar to the United Kingdom design. Place names are listed in Irish in mixed case, followed underneath by the English language equivalent place name in all capital letters. The Transport Heavy and Motorway typefaces are used, although the Irish language text uses a distinctive oblique variant, in which letters a are represented by script a (ɑ), and letters i are represented by dotless i (ı) in order to better differentiate from their accented form.
Oh dear. I'm on a Wikipedia roll now.
Transport is a sans serif typeface first designed for road signs in the United Kingdom. It was created between 1957 and 1963 by Jock Kinneir and Margaret Calvert as part of their work as designers for the Department of Transport's Anderson and Worboys committees. == History == Before its introduction, British road signs used the capitals-only Llewellyn-Smith alphabet that was introduced following the Maybury Report of 1933 and revised in 1955–57. Older signs, known as fingerposts, tended to use a variety of sans serif alphabets as supplied by their manufacturers. For the kinds of roads on which...
 
@TRiG ... and the current US one is actually the very similar
Clearview, also known as Clearview Hwy, is the name of a humanist sans-serif typeface family for guide signs on roads in the United States. It was developed by independent researchers with the help of the Texas Transportation Institute and the Pennsylvania Transportation Institute, under the supervision of the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). It was once expected to replace the FHWA typefaces in many applications, although newer studies of its effectiveness have called its benefits into question. Testing found Clearview was two to eight percent more legible in daytime and nighttime viewing...
 
@IsaacMoses I think it's a bit bolder than what they use for the English names here.
 
7:31 PM
@Scimonster looks like Clearview, I think
 
Wikipedia article Road signs in Israel is much less comprehensive than its articles on many other countries. Doesn't mention the typeface, and lacks many examples. There's a weird description of the parking sign, but no image of one.
Oh. Sorry. Correction. There is an image.
 
YEZ
is there a website where I can search all of sha"s for a keyword?
or even just a masechta? Without having to go daf by daf or amud by amud.
 
YEZ
@IsaacMoses Thanks. (I found a way to search entire masechta but not all of shas, but that was enough for me)
 
@YEZ I use Torat Emet
(though not a website)
 
7:49 PM
@YEZ You can search all of shas. Mishna: mechon-mamre.org/b/h/h0.htm
The search bar on those pages is specific.
 
@YEZ judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/ask (though I think I've seen it before.....)
@YEZ Here it is:
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Q: List of all the Seforim Software

YehoshuaI'd like to compile a list of all the computer programs out there that people can use for learning/reading seforim with. There are many of them now a days (and perhaps were some in the past that are no longer being supported.) However I'd like to keep a list to what is currently being supported a...

(though again, it doesn't appear to ask for, or even contain, websites....so I think you could ask a new question ;)
 
 
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YEZ
9:07 PM
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Q: Reference to good texts

JNFFollowing this: Is there some way to make it easier to quote and find relevant texts? Hebrewbooks is a great site, very helpful with sources and texts, a wonderful interface and good options. Still, sometimes looking up a book can be frustrating and annoying. Is it possible to have a reference ...

I even have an answer there.
 
 
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11:40 PM
@GeminiMan Cool, thanks!
 

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