When I first saw you use that icon (some while ago now), I wondered quite what it was about. For some reason, that little "-" at the end of the 3rd line got misinterpreted in my brain, and read it as consec-rated - like X-rated or premium-rated. I wondered what "consec" meant, but figured maybe it was jargon from some genre I wasn't familiar with, imagining it was the equivalent of four chillies on a menu.
Finally, today, my brain recognised it as a hyphen[1]. Now it all makes sense! Duh!
I think I'll go lie down in a dark room for a while.
[1] Perhaps because I have spent the last week or so arguing with InDesign about, among other things, hyphenation,.
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Date: 2007-06-11 10:16 am (UTC)When I first saw you use that icon (some while ago now), I wondered quite what it was about. For some reason, that little "-" at the end of the 3rd line got misinterpreted in my brain, and read it as consec-rated - like X-rated or premium-rated. I wondered what "consec" meant, but figured maybe it was jargon from some genre I wasn't familiar with, imagining it was the equivalent of four chillies on a menu.
Finally, today, my brain recognised it as a hyphen[1]. Now it all makes sense! Duh!
I think I'll go lie down in a dark room for a while.
[1] Perhaps because I have spent the last week or so arguing with InDesign about, among other things, hyphenation,.
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Date: 2007-06-11 04:37 pm (UTC)That made my morning.
(He's someone who I knew would take it well, I might add. After his initial heart attack, anyway...)