Thursday, November 17, 2005

A typoporn bite: "mimi numinum...

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Blackletter types don't distinguish well between i, u m and n, especially since there aren't any dots on the 'i's. A 14th century joke to illustrate this was "mimi numinum niuium minimi munium nimium uini muniminum imminui uiui minimum uolunt". It translates as "the smallest mimes of the gods of snow do not wish at all in their life that the great duty of the defences of the wine be diminished". Blackletter types on Wikipedia.

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