Comments on: Typography (Booking through Thursday)

By: Superfast Reader

Superfast Reader — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 11:56:02 +0000

uh…

no?

By: Danika (OpenChannel)

Danika (OpenChannel) — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 07:06:07 +0000

Wait… you watch “The Real World”?

By: Superfast Reader

Superfast Reader — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 19:17:17 +0000

Very cool answer–you are so kind to point it out!

By: Susan Helene Gottfried

Susan Helene Gottfried — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:15:59 +0000

Amazing, the things we learn while playing Cranium games, isn’t it?

I answered today, too. Nothing nearly as cool as yours, though. Except that when I worked as a copy editor, I liked the work.

Well enough.

By: Superfast Reader

Superfast Reader — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:43:56 +0000

I wonder if the apostrophe is meant as a click, like the !Kung?

Hi, Open Channel! Nice to “see” you

By: CoversGirl

CoversGirl — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 13:40:04 +0000

This reminds me of a name I saw in the local paper once: T’sari. Not sure what effect that apostrophe has on pronounciation . . . I always wonder whatever possessed the parents when I hear of odd/unpronouncable names because I have one myself and haven’t enjoyed the experience.

By: Danika (OpenChannel)

Danika (OpenChannel) — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 07:58:02 +0000

Hey Superfast, long time no see.

Brad – that reminds me of the chapter in Freakonomics (an amazing book by Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt) about names. He brings up this very thing… a parent names her kids two names pronounced Le-MON-zhello and Or-AN-zhello and spelled:

lemonjello
orangejello

Superfast – I, too, have a soft spot in my heart for typos. One time a poem of mine was published and somewhere along the line all the letters with carons (^) over them turned into ampersands (&).

Oh – and I FINALLY posted a blog report on my book reading challenge (or not so challenge, as the case may be). It’s on my latest Thursday Thirteen.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 23:39:42 +0000

I love Cranium!

By: Superfast Reader

Superfast Reader — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 23:36:19 +0000

I love weird names… had a friend when I was a little girl named Montserrat. That’s the best unusual name I’ve ever known.

By: Julia

Julia — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 21:47:50 +0000

pronounced names can drive me crazy sometime. Unless it had a nice ring to it that just fit. Sometime I love the different pronouncced names and other time….it confusing…but funny confusing hehehe