Re: Strikethrough in a Email address?
- From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 10:33:58 -0800
P.S. These discussion can sometimes get awfully abstract. May I add that I
had normal, functional vision until I was over fifty years old, and that I
had correspondence with people in Europe, visited Europe, had friends from
Mexico city and Buenos Aires, and saw with my own eyes how universal the
crossed seven was as a handwriting custom. But believe me, everywhere in
the world, the American seven is recognized. The only reason the person
write down that email address as they did is what I said below. It's
because that's how they write a seven, not how it is on the keyboard or in
the email address itself.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 10:21 AM
Subject: Re: Strikethrough in a Email address?
Bruce,
I understand this was handwritten on paper, not something seen on the
computer. Okay? That would suggest that the person who wrote down the
address always writes a seven like that either as an affectation if they're
American, or just habitually since childhood if they were brought up in
Europe or Latin America. Those folks always write a seven that way. No
matter what they're writing it for. That is the only way they hand write a
seven.
It has nothing to do with it having appeared in an email address. Do you
see what I'm saying? It was not evidence that the email address actually
looks like that when you see it on your computer, in an email header.
Hope that helps.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Toews" <DogRiver@xxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 10:09 AM
Subject: Re: Strikethrough in a Email address?
It was an e-mail address.
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On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, Yardbird wrote:
> Steve,
> Take it from me. When someone sends a letter snail mail from the U.S. to
> Paris, Mexico City, or Buenos Aires, and hand writes an address with a
> seven
> in it, there's no problem. Everyone simply notices that the envelope must
> not have come from someone who writes the seven as they do. You see, it's
> just a slight stylistic difference. here in the U.S., the way we learn to
> write a seven involves a longer top line than is the European custom or
> the
> Latin American custom derived from it. There is usually also a difference
> in the way the writer flips the top line up a little for a slight
> curlycue,
> but that's not the most noticeable difference. So it's just an old,
> traditional way of making sure to distinguish the one from the seven, but
> in
> practice is more decorative and stylistic than truly functional, as you
> may
> be imagining.
>
> Hope this helps.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steve Gomes" <finnygomes@xxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 9:40 AM
> Subject: Re: Strikethrough in a Email address?
>
>
> maybe he wants the email to get where it is going. That is why he probably
> feels obligated to write it the way it appears. ever think of that???
>
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 8:39 AM
> Subject: Re: Strikethrough in a Email address?
>
>
>> Hi,
>> You don't have to do that. It's just the way many Europeans and Latin
>> Americans write the number seven. Why do you think you're obligated to
>> produce a character that looks like it? I'm confused.
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Jim Talley" <nrg.jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 7:31 AM
>> Subject: Strikethrough in a Email address?
>>
>>
>> Hi Listers, someone has given me there Email address on paper, there is
>> the
>> number seven with a line drawn through it in the address. Can any of
>> you
>> tell me how to create this character using Jaws? I am using Jaws 7.0 with
>> Win XP home. Thanks in advance!
>> Jim Talley (Coordinator) ASSISTIVE ASSOCIATES
>>
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