Trajan's Column () is a Roman triumphal column in Rome, Italy, which commemorates Roman emperor Trajan's victory in the Dacian Wars. It was probably constructed under the supervision of the architect Apollodorus of Damascus at the order of the Roman Senate. It is located in Trajan's Forum, built near the Quirinal Hill, north of the Roman Forum. Completed in AD 113, the freestanding column is most famous for its spiral bas relief, that artistically describes the epic wars between the Romans and Dacians (101–102 and 105–106). Its design has inspired numerous victory columns, both ancient an...
A swash is a typographical flourish on a glyph, like an exaggerated serif.
Capital swash characters, which extended to the left, were historically often used to begin sentences. There were also minuscule swash characters, which came either extending to the left, to begin words, or to the right to end them. They were used in former times to help fit the text to the line, instead of spaces of varying widths ("justification").
Some of the characters in ligatures were called swash characters, even though they did not protrude to the space on either side of the piece of type, such as the t...
Blackletter, also known as Gothic script, Gothic minuscule, or Textura, was a script used throughout Western Europe from approximately 1150 to well into the 17th century. It continued to be used for the German language until the 20th century. Fraktur is a notable script of this type, and sometimes the entire group of faces is known as Fraktur. Blackletter is sometimes called Old English, but it is not to be confused with the Old English language, despite the popular, though mistaken, belief that the language was written with blackletter. The Old English (or Anglo-Saxon) language predates...
The r rotunda (), "rounded r," is an old letter variant found in full script-like typefaces, especially blackletters. Between the Middle Ages and today, many ways of writing alphabetical characters were lost. Besides a variety of ligatures, conjoined letters, scribal abbreviations, swash characters, and the "long s" with its own ligatures, one was the "r rotunda". Like many of the practices listed, this variant form of that letter was originally devised either to save space while writing on expensive parchment or for aesthetic reasons. It became popular among typesetters, providing a vi...
The Antiqua–Fraktur dispute was a typographical dispute in 19th- and early 20th-century Germany.
In most European countries, blackletter typefaces like the German Fraktur were displaced with the creation of the Antiqua typefaces in the 15th and 16th centuries. However, in Germany, both typefaces coexisted until the first half of the 20th century.
During that time, both typefaces gained ideological connotations in Germany, which led to long and heated disputes on what was the "correct" typeface to use. The eventual outcome was that the Antiqua-type fonts won, when the National Socialist...
Kurrent is an old form of German language handwriting based on late medieval cursive writing, also known as Kurrentschrift or Alte Deutsche Schrift ("Old German script"). Over the history of its use into the first part of the 20th century, many individual letters acquired variant forms.
Sütterlin is a modern script based on Kurrentschrift that is characterized by simplified letters and vertical strokes. It was developed in 1911 and taught in German schools as primary script from 1935 until 1941. Then it was replaced with "normal German font," which is sometimes referred to (correctly b...
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I think friend of mine can be translated to my friend.
In that case, doesn't friend of me make more sense?
If we translate friend of mine to one of my friends then I guess friend of mine makes sense for my friends being mine.
Is there a difference?
When do you say ... of mine instead of my ......
Barrie England's answer is useful, but doesn't address
(a) the reason that the double genitive is used
(b) the sum total of the restrictions on its use
I can't begin to answer the first of these points, but have some additional remarks to make about the second:
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A mistress used to (I'm finding out) mean the woman in charge of the house. Master is the male equivalent. You can have a master and mistress at the same time.
Nostalgia can be a harsh mistress means that it acts like a mistress, and if you are her servant (or maid), poor you, because she is ha...user19161
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i Like to list out the common English words which doesn't have following
1.words without usage of vowels(e.g sky)
2.words doesn't have vowel 's pronunciation(e.g sky comes with 'i' pronunciation)
can anyone list out the common words?
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