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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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