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minus-squarethe dopamine fiend@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·21 天前I learned about ſ from House of Leaves. “ſtaires! We haue found ſtaires!”
minus-squaresp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·edit-221 天前 The Constitution of the USA The actual literal written document makes considerable use of ’ ſ ', this is from a rare typed version that does as well.
minus-squareTheThunderWolf@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·20 天前me on my way to eftablifh Juftice and fecure the Bleffings of Liberty to ourfelves
minus-squaresp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-220 天前Aw, you have the sniffles? God bleff you.
minus-squareMinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·21 天前no way. i knew it used the long S in the handwritten one, but i never knew there were typed versions. this is a find
minus-squaresp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·20 天前https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-forgotten-copy-of-the-constitution-discovered-in-a-filing-cabinet-could-sell-for-millions-180985060/ Indeed it was, fetched a pretty penny via Sotheby’s auction. Hilariously… was discovered during an estate sale (garage sale for rich people) in North Carolina.
minus-squareMinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·20 天前Estate sales aren’t garage sales for rich people. They’re garage sales for dead people. Hence the word estate. It’s the estate of the deceased holding the sale, not the deceased. Legal bullshit mumbo gumbo, but there you have it
minus-squaresp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·19 天前True, my mistake, I accidentally made a false e-statement.
minus-squareMinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·19 天前how dare you be incorrect on the internet. i just thought i’d share a factoid i knew from one of my old professional lives
minus-squaresp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-219 天前And how dare you sir, not even pretend to acknowledge my terrible pun!
minus-squareMinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·19 天前aw fuck i’m too high for puns
minus-squarejdr@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up3·20 天前Check those beautiful ligatures from long s to long s and from long s to t, and c to t.
minus-squarethe dopamine fiend@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·20 天前It’s fun. I like ergodic literature.
I learned about ſ from House of Leaves.
“ſtaires! We haue found ſtaires!”
The Constitution of the USA
The actual literal written document makes considerable use of ’ ſ ', this is from a rare typed version that does as well.
me on my way to eftablifh Juftice and fecure the Bleffings of Liberty to ourfelves
Aw, you have the sniffles?
God bleff you.
no way. i knew it used the long S in the handwritten one, but i never knew there were typed versions. this is a find
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-forgotten-copy-of-the-constitution-discovered-in-a-filing-cabinet-could-sell-for-millions-180985060/
Indeed it was, fetched a pretty penny via Sotheby’s auction.
Hilariously… was discovered during an estate sale (garage sale for rich people) in North Carolina.
Estate sales aren’t garage sales for rich people. They’re garage sales for dead people. Hence the word estate. It’s the estate of the deceased holding the sale, not the deceased. Legal bullshit mumbo gumbo, but there you have it
True, my mistake, I accidentally made a false e-statement.
how dare you be incorrect on the internet.
i just thought i’d share a factoid i knew from one of my old professional lives
And how dare you sir, not even pretend to acknowledge my terrible pun!
aw fuck i’m too high for puns
Check those beautiful ligatures from long s to long s and from long s to t, and c to t.
i need to finish that one
It’s fun. I like ergodic literature.