{"id":785,"date":"2003-02-18T20:19:03","date_gmt":"2003-02-19T04:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=785"},"modified":"2005-07-29T21:58:23","modified_gmt":"2005-07-30T05:58:23","slug":"letters-on-sticks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=785","title":{"rendered":"letters on sticks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ian Frazier visits a <a href=http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/issues\/97nov\/type.htm>typewriter wizard<\/a> (Atlantic Monthly, 1997).  Martin Tytell has stories to tell about converting typewriters for other alphabets: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p> There he received his hardest job of the war &#8211; a rush request to convert typewriters to twenty-one different languages of Asia and the South Pacific.  .&nbsp;.&nbsp;.  The implications of the work and its difficulty brought him to near collapse, but he completed it with only one mistake: on the Burmese typewriter he put a letter on upside down.  Years later, after he had discovered his error, he told the language professor he had worked with that he would fix that letter on the professor&#8217;s Burmese typewriter.  The professor said not to bother; in the intervening years, as a result of typewriters copied from Martin&#8217;s original, that upside-down letter had been accepted in Burma as proper typewriter style. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> (Link found at <a href=http:\/\/www.cecm.sfu.ca\/personal\/jborwein\/quotations.html>Jonathan Borwein&#8217;s Quotations Page<\/a>, which is mostly about the sciences)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ian Frazier visits a typewriter wizard (Atlantic Monthly, 1997). Martin Tytell has stories to tell about converting typewriters for other alphabets: There he received his hardest job of the war &#8211; a rush request to convert typewriters to twenty-one different &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=785\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}