NightOwl@lemmy.ca to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 13 days agoLouisiana's new "Ten Commandments" law actually contains eleven commandmentsboingboing.netexternal-linkmessage-square121fedilinkarrow-up1491arrow-down18
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minus-squareAeonFelis@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up52·13 days ago The text of the Ten Commandments … shall be printed in a large, easily readable font. Comic Sans it is.
minus-squareChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20arrow-down1·13 days agoNo … Wingdings.
minus-squareAeonFelis@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·13 days agoHow is Wingdings “easily readable”?
minus-squareRvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·edit-213 days agoHow about Arabic? Or Chinese, simplified Chinese is read by like a billion people, so clearly easily readable, it even has simplified in the name!
minus-squareAeonFelis@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·13 days agoWouldn’t work. The law clearly specifies the exact text, and it’s in English.
minus-squareKrzd@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·12 days agoCan you write English with Chinese characters?
minus-squareXTL@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·12 days agoPeople certainly try with Cyrillic. And kanji?
minus-squaregentooer@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-212 days agoCyrillic seems really difficult with all the vowel shifts, English doesn’t even make sense in its own alphabet. Something like “Ай эм де лорд, дай год.” then?
minus-squareshasta@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·12 days agoIt is easily readable wingdings. It doesn’t say it has to be easily understood or interpreted.
Comic Sans it is.
No … Wingdings.
How is Wingdings “easily readable”?
How about Arabic? Or Chinese, simplified Chinese is read by like a billion people, so clearly easily readable, it even has simplified in the name!
Wouldn’t work. The law clearly specifies the exact text, and it’s in English.
Can you write English with Chinese characters?
People certainly try with Cyrillic. And kanji?
Cyrillic seems really difficult with all the vowel shifts, English doesn’t even make sense in its own alphabet. Something like “Ай эм де лорд, дай год.” then?
Er, hebrew?
It is easily readable wingdings. It doesn’t say it has to be easily understood or interpreted.