Re: data, news, pants, scissors, people [was: Proper verb agreement when referring to a company or firm]

Alexei A. Frounze wrote:

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Alexei A. Frounze wrote:
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Alexei A. Frounze wrote:

Here's an example to boggle the mind of the English speaker: "Вы
когда-нибудь замечали, как меняется
весь облик города во время грозы?"
It boggles the mind because it makes no sense. What is it supposed
to say?

Just what it says: "Have you ever noticed how the city's entire view
changes during the storm?" I brought UTF-8 back so that the above is
readable unless you have no cyrillic font in your system.

I found it difficult to read not only because I didn't know the meanings
of most of the words, but also because the writing was so small. Why
should a Cyrillic letter be half the height of a Roman letter? (And why
does the interline spacing increase, as if you'd written abnormally
large characters?) The people who design fonts still have a long way to
go. I get the same feeling for many signs I've seen written in Chinese.
I don't understand the characters, but it always seems to me that the
characters are so small that a flyspeck could change the meaning. Is
that the reason for the high incidence of spectacle-wearing among the
Chinese?

I don't know anything about Chinese or your system configuration. But I've
seen that kind of bad situation on Linux, where due to a KDE configuration
tool bug all cyrillic fonts but one got unaccessible and the one left had
completely different character sizes compared to all other fonts.

Just for-the-record: no problem here reading the posted Cyrillic with Knode
under the current Ubuntu Linux release (Breezy) and its default fonts.
Quoting (see above) may be another story.

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