Warp wrote:
>   The finnish word "kursiivi" means italic or oblique (I'm not exactly sure
> what the difference is between those two, as I'm not a typographist), while
> the English word "cursive" is a completely different word in Finnish
> ("kaunokirjoitus").

Kewl.

"italic" is a different font, while "oblique" just means "slanted."

See this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblique_type
for roman, italic, and oblique. :-)

(I learned *that* from TeX and Metafont.

>   Sometimes misusing quotes can result in rather hilarious, albeit unintended,
> meanings. 

Heh.



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