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minus-squarethe dopamine fiend@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 day agoI learned about ſ from House of Leaves. “ſtaires! We haue found ſtaires!”
minus-squarefleem@piefed.zeromedia.viplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·20 hours agoi need to finish that one
minus-squarethe dopamine fiend@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·20 hours agoIt’s fun. I like ergodic literature.
minus-squaresp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·edit-21 day ago 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-up2·15 hours agome on my way to eftablifh Juftice and fecure the Bleffings of Liberty to ourfelves
minus-squaresp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-211 hours agoAw, you have the sniffles? God bleff you. lolololol
minus-squarejdr@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2·18 hours agoCheck those beautiful ligatures from long s to long s and from long s to t, and c to t.
minus-squareMinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·23 hours agono 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-up2·19 hours agohttps://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-up1·4 hours agoEstate 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
I learned about ſ from House of Leaves.
“ſtaires! We haue found ſtaires!”
i need to finish that one
It’s fun. I like ergodic literature.
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.
lolololol
Check those beautiful ligatures from long s to long s and from long s to t, and c to t.
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