Thursday, May 1, 2008

Woo, ligatures

So I was trying to type the word "dæmon", for Philip Pullman-related reasons, and as none of these primitive keyboards have the letter æ I went to the Wikipedia article "Æ" to copy and paste one, where I learned that "Æ can be used in written communication by two people who are in love as a dual number pronoun, replacing "we" and "us"".

It's citation needed, which probably means it's rank nonsense, but still fairly cool in terms of the Future Thesis. I should read up on dual number pronouns. IT'S ALL RELATED.

(The last time I saw Vicky she narrated Joan of Arc's trial transcripts for me, then said that if it wasn't for the fact that she was doing an M.Phil about it, she would just be a crazy person obsessed with medieval witch trials. That seems to be how it works.)

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