Sarudani Miolnir fucked around with this message on 09-03-2005 at 05:51 PM.
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We were all impressed when JooJooFlop wrote:
Why do you ask?
Don't want to violate my NDA so can't really tell you specifics. Check out Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood though, it should be a hit.
And thanks Sarudani.
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Bent over the coffee table, Naimah squealed:
The typewriter used was the Corona No 2 Folding Portable which is claimed to have the open/close quotes. I havn't been able to prove or disprove this though. Learning an annoying amount about the history of typewriters though. Any more help would be greatly appreciated.
Honestly, I don't think curly quotation marks hit typewriters until well after WWII. Who is it making this odd claim?
--Satan, quoted by John Milton
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Channeling the spirit of Sherlock Holmes, Naimah absently fondled Watson and proclaimed:
Someone that has been told by those in the 'know' about such things. Thus why I need proof to the contrary. However, finding clean shots of the keyboard on type writers is difficult to say the least.
So is this person really claiming mysterious informed backers, or you know the source and can't divulge it? Because even today's standard keyboard layout doesn't include separate keys for opening and closing quotation marks--they were added when typewriters went electronic in the '70s and '80s, and now we rely on software to make it pretty for us.
Further, one needs to ask the question, "What's the point?" Why would a portable typewriter of that era have separate opening and closing quotation marks? If that particular typewriter had it, it was non-standard and one should be able to look up the model and find out what it did differently than others.
There's always a chance I'm clueless, but the standard keyboard layout has been around a long time, and I have trouble buying a WWII-era portable typewriter with an expanded keyboard and more lever arms.
--Satan, quoted by John Milton
There's simply no compelling reason this particular typewriter would need curly quotes.
--Satan, quoted by John Milton
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Bloodsage was naked while typing this:
You know, dude, after a quick review of typewriter history, the burden of proof should be on your bud to prove that the machine in question was an exception, rather than on you to prove it wasn't. I can't find a single instance of a mechanical typewriter that used separate quotation marks. The QWERTY layout, and its attendant punctuation keys, has been the standard since the typerwriter was invented. Only in the first few years, before 1900, were different layouts tried. By the time WWII rolled around, typewriters were pretty standardized.There's simply no compelling reason this particular typewriter would need curly quotes.
He's my boss and thus burdon of proof pretty much automaticly falls on my shoulders. It sucks, but I may just drop it because it isn't worth one invalid bug.
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Quoth Naimah:
He's my boss and thus burdon of proof pretty much automaticly falls on my shoulders. It sucks, but I may just drop it because it isn't worth one invalid bug.
Wow, your boss is an idiot.
--Satan, quoted by John Milton
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We were all impressed when Bloodsage wrote:
Wow, your boss is an idiot.
Not really, he's a cool guy. He is just deffering to so called experts. I don't blame him.
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Channeling the spirit of Sherlock Holmes, Naimah absently fondled Watson and proclaimed:
Not really, he's a cool guy. He is just deffering to so called experts. I don't blame him.
If these were indeed experts, they'd be able to demonstrate their assertion that this particular typewriter--uniquely--offered separate curly quote keys.
--Satan, quoted by John Milton
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