Quoting from Jeff Atwood's blog:
[I expanded the team] by adding Kevin, who I didn't know, but had built amazing
stuff for us without even being asked to, from Texas. And again by adding Robert,
in Florida, who I also didn't know, but spent so much time on every single part
of our si...
I can't remember the one I'm thinking of, but there's a word that in American English has done a 180 and its meaning is now the negation of the one in British English. What words are there that have opposite (not just different) meanings in different regions?
Is there an instrument (preferably ancient) that uses information gathered in the past to navigate the future course? Trying to capture the concept of using the past to navigate the future. Thinking nautical? Something else that I'm missing?
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English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…
Mar 31 at 20:57, by RegDwight
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In writing and typography, a ligature occurs where two or more graphemes are joined as a single glyph. Ligatures usually replace consecutive characters sharing common components and are part of a more general class of glyphs called "contextual forms", where the specific shape of a letter depends on context such as surrounding letters or proximity to the end of a line.
History
At the origin of typographical ligatures is the simple running together of letters in manuscripts. Already the earliest known script, Sumerian cuneiform, includes many cases of character combinations that over the ...
The Arabic alphabet ( ') or Arabic abjad is the script used for writing several languages of Asia and Africa, such as Arabic, Persian, and Urdu. After the Latin alphabet, it is the second-most widely used alphabet around the world.
The Arabic script is written from right to left, in a cursive style, and includes 28 basic letters. Because all letters usually stand for consonants, it is classified as an abjad.
The script was first used to write texts in Arabic, most notably the ', the holy book of Islam. With the spread of Islam, it came to be used to write languages of many language...
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