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Originally Posted by Freeshadow
Methinks you once said you were...
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You are probably right. And, 'tis--or was, rather--true.
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Nope. It's a convention. One that has changed in the past and will very likely change again in the future. Typography has never been static and/or definitive. It has always been governed by various (and differing) conventions.
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That's exactly right. Conventions
do change. Those have little to do with "good bookmaking," per se. I mean, 60-70 characters on a line--
that's good bookmaking. 120 characters on a line, = bad bookmaking. But for something like that, you can see that the soliloquy rule, as I call it, that is a real convention. I've seen editors--I'm not making this up--mark multiple-paragraph layout with the closing quote solely at the end as "wrong." That always gets my back up, but...whatev.
I'm assuming that this will go the way of the dodo, alack and alas.
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Originally Posted by Toxaris
Psst, after this thread it is mostly grey I think...  |
It certainly hasn't HELPED, that's fer damn sure. :-)
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Originally Posted by Freeshadow
Redheads don't turn grey. They turn blonde
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Well, various redheads go different ways. My sister and I both went "brown." From auburn heads, we both ended up with a color I call (in polite company) "crap Irish brown." (you can imagine for yourself what the first word is when not in same). My aunt went to an oddball strawberry-blonde color, which was indeed a blonde-ish-coppery-color. I don't think you could emulate it out of the box. She gave up and went with a golden-blonde color (oui, from the salon, not mother nature).
Aging red hair just...does things you don't expect. (For those few of you who still have aging in front of you!). My red strands that turned grey, turned a silver-white, which was groovy, right up to the point that I realized--gasp--it is also curly as hell. Which would also be fine if
the rest of my head was covered with curly hair--which it
isn't. It's straight as a stick, thick, and
quite long (the ends tickle the top of my glute muscles, ahem!). THAT's been a real surprise. How, after all, can you have two completely DIFFERENT types of hair on one's head? Not merely a different color--no, that would be too easy. But it's as though two different sets of DNA are living inside my damn scalp. For ****'s sake!
Aging
begrudgingly gracefully into a
crone silver-haired goddess,
Hitch