@RegDwigнt I shred Rachmaninoff the way I shred phonebooks. You may be too young to know what those were. So here's a little help:
Now you can see my Rachmaninoff technique at a glance.
Actually, the only Rachmaninoff I ever attempted was the obvious C# Minor Prelude. I did it mainly to see if I could handle the two-hand jumps. I managed to get through the piece (after long practice) by slowing down through the fast part in the middle. That was 20 years ago and I've never gone back to it. It's somewhere below the freeze line in my stacks of piano music, the pieces that gravitate (good word!) to the bottom and are never seen again.
You find the skeletons of pieces there, like the Liszt B-minor Sonata, Beethoven's Waldstein Sonata, Ravel's Le Tombeau de Couperin, etc. My eyes were bigger than my stomach, I guess.
But the scores weren't a waste of money. It's fun to read along while a real pianist plays them.
I just listened to Barenboim playing the Waldstein. Beethoven never ceases to surprise me. How he can get into frantic coruscations of melody and then, right when the roller coaster is about to tear you apart, he slows down to whole-note and half-note two-hand chord progressions that are almost unbearably tender.
@RegDwigнt Yeah, these people are really stupid. I suspect that Kimmel's crew cherry-picked the worst examples. I don't think I know any people who would call Africa a country. Or wouldn't at least know where their own fucking country is on a map.
I contacted Mr. Everson by e-mail and put him in touch with Kosmonaut.
Frankly, I'm a little embarrassed at the response he got here. This whole situation could have been avoided if there were a way for users to direct message each other. But there is not, and that's too bad.
Sometimes the best...
I myself would miss a few—forget some of the Stans, mislabel a Balkan or two, get the order wrong with Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia (because I just don't give a fuck), same with African countries beginning with Z—but I don't know how in the world anybody wouldn't be able identify Russia, India, China, Australia ...
There are so few faces with authentic insular letterforms.
They nearly all of them simply pretend.
Ꝺ A779 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER INSULAR D
ꝺ A77A LATIN SMALL LETTER INSULAR D
Ꝼ A77B LATIN CAPITAL LETTER INSULAR F
ꝼ A77C LATIN SMALL LETTER INSULAR F
Ᵹ A77D LATIN CAPITAL LETTER INSULAR G
Ꝿ A77E LATIN CAPITAL LETTER TURNED INSULAR G
ꝿ A77F LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED INSULAR G
Ꞃ A782 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER INSULAR R
ꞃ A783 LATIN SMALL LETTER INSULAR R
Ꞅ A784 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER INSULAR S
ꞅ A785 LATIN SMALL LETTER INSULAR S
f vs ſ
That’s merely a “long s”, not an f.
Therefore, it is not a weefil but rather a weeſil — meaning of course, a weasel.
We can rule out weevil because it
has the look not of a bug but of a musteline
critter.
Here are some examples in various faces — namely, in roman, ital...
In 2009 I went to an exhibit at MOMA in NY and was struck by a hand-painted alphabet that the artist had done in something like 90 seconds. It was flawless. I don't suppose you might have any knowledge of this, because since then I've tried to locate it on the Web with no success.
@Robusto Good, hope it’s not too bad down there. I have to drive back down to Cañon City in the morning. That means sledding past Shog at Monument Hill (~7300') which is apparently yucky tonight.
That’s using these code points to tease out the neat stuff: ȝᵹꝹꝺꝻꝼꝽꝾꝿꞂꞃꞄꞅꞆꞇÞþƿǷ⁊
\N{LATIN SMALL LETTER YOGH}
\N{LATIN SMALL LETTER INSULAR G}
\N{LATIN CAPITAL LETTER INSULAR D}
\N{LATIN SMALL LETTER INSULAR D}
\N{LATIN CAPITAL LETTER INSULAR F}
\N{LATIN SMALL LETTER INSULAR F}
\N{LATIN CAPITAL LETTER INSULAR G}
\N{LATIN CAPITAL LETTER TURNED INSULAR G}
\N{LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED INSULAR G}
\N{LATIN CAPITAL LETTER INSULAR R}
\N{LATIN SMALL LETTER INSULAR R}
\N{LATIN CAPITAL LETTER INSULAR S}
\N{LATIN SMALL LETTER INSULAR S}
\N{LATIN CAPITAL LETTER INSULAR T}
\N{LATIN SMALL LETTER INSULAR T}
Do the eths and ts sit on the baseline in your image?
I presume they do.
Many descenders, few ascenders.
@MetaEd: I saw a comment in which you admonished someone that answers should be "lengthy"; I disagree. They should be as long as they need to be, and no longer.
@tchrist I forgot which user is very disappointed about SE's use of the Arial font. Maybe there are several. But couldn't a bunch of upvotes be bartered for a new one? It could happen.
Basically, anybody who knows anything about fonts.
Woah guys settle down. I don't want to have to flag comments on here. @JonEricson your comment towards tchrist is out of line. He never once insulted the designers. Tchrist stated "that [the use of Arial] says you don't care about design." That is not an insult, it is a critique of the use of Arial; and one that many designers agree with. — Ryan ♦Oct 30 at 18:12
Like anybody from the Graphic Design crew here, including Ryan the moderator.
The thing is, the Powers That Be have ordained that one can only use fonts that are already pre-installed on systems.
Which means they can't know which font they are even using.
@tchrist This is the unfortunate reality of the Web. Most sites want their content to go down the pipe as easily as possible. But enough big sites have been persuaded that good-looking fonts are, well, a good thing.
E.g., this one and this one have custom grotesque fonts that degrade to the usual Helveticas and Arial.
Damn, I wish Macron were our president. Or, really, any decent human being.
@tchrist I didn't like Tahoma. It seemed like a first-grade handout to me, but I had to go back to it because it was the clearest by far to me. Sometimes the eye can't behold beauty...unless the font size is huge.
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We can omit relative pronoun when:
The relative clause is non-defining clause, and the pronoun is the subject of the relative clause with a "be" verb (NOT verb to be).
My mother, who is an excellent cook, is thinking of opening a restaurant.
My mother, an excellent cook, is th...
@Robusto well yes. I don't know anyone who doesn't know the name of the current German president, but apparently that is the case for 80% of Germans, and for 100% of people outside the country.
@Cerberus the Earth is round. Where your map starts and where it ends is completely arbitrary. Not to mention which way it says is up and which is down.
You just like to see Holland right in the middle of Middle-Earth, you hobbit you.
Go look at New Zealand world maps. That's where they make movies about hobbits.
@hbtpoprock I don't really know a 'why' answer. All I can do is say 'yes this sentence sounds right' or 'this sentence is ungrammatical'. I'm having trouble coming up with a rule from your examples.
I contacted Mr. Everson by e-mail and put him in touch with Kosmonaut.
Frankly, I'm a little embarrassed at the response he got here. This whole situation could have been avoided if there were a way for users to direct message each other. But there is not, and that's too bad.
Sometimes the best...
f vs ſ
That’s merely a “long s”, not an f.
Therefore, it is not a weefil but rather a weeſil — meaning of course, a weasel.
We can rule out weevil because it
has the look not of a bug but of a musteline
critter.
Here are some examples in various faces — namely, in roman, ital...
English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…
English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…