Long S
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Long S
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Re: Long S
#2Too bad we gave up on that.
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#3"The long s survives in elongated form, and with an italic-style curled descender, as the integral symbol ∫ used in calculus."
Did not know that.
Re: Long S
#4Too bad we gave up on that.
English is a living language, you can always try and revive it. It might give your resume a certain je ne sais qua ;)
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#6One of my favorite uses of the long S in an Achewood comic: http://achewood.com/index.php?date=10192004
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#8Too bad we gave up on that.
English is a living language, you can always try and revive it. It might give your resume a certain je ne sais qua ;)
Actually, my `we' meant the Germans. And not so much only the long-s, but also Fraktur.
The Nazis banned Fraktur, probably because Hitler didn't like it, and we never re-introduced it. As an irony of history, for some people Fraktur now carries connotations of the Third Reich. (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiqua-Fraktur_dispute)
I have a few old books in Fraktur. Faust and translations of Shakespeare's plays.
P.S. For my resume, my name only has the wrong kind of s.
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#9I think the most amazing part of this is just how quickly it disappeared. That graph showing it almost entirely disappearing — after being used for hundreds of years beforehand — in just 15 years is pretty amazing. The explanations in this article, sadly, aren't that in-depth about why we see such a big switch so quickly...
Re: Long S
#10Too bad we gave up on that.
I have compoſe-f-s as the key combination for long s in my .xcompoſe file: https://github.com/kragen/xcompose. You, too, can compoſe miſsives uſing our dear antiquated friend, ſhould you ſo deſire.