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To: John H K
>It's Arabic calligraphy, not a picture.

People bring this up every time. Calligraphy IS NOT printing. In calligraphy the artist can take letters and form almost any design. Especially using something like Arabic script. Look at some examples of Victorian or Russian calligraphy which use less adaptable alphabets. Even there is can get pretty wild.

This artist chose to depict 2 towers with his stamp design and overshadow it with the word "Die."

16 posted on 12/08/2003 9:28:41 PM PST by Dialup Llama
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To: Dialup Llama
You can't be serious. The stamp says literally "Blessed Eid" (Eid Mubaarak), which is the standard Eid greeting. The 'two towers' are the long a (aa) and part of the k in Mubaarak. They are letters. That's the only way they can be written, even in calligraphy. They have to be 'tall'. Try writing a 't' in calligraphy without making it tall, or an 'l'. Same idea. T's and L's may look different in different styles of calligraphy, but if they aren't taller than a short letter like an 'a', they aren't exactly a 't' or an 'l', are they?
21 posted on 12/08/2003 11:12:40 PM PST by Kaiwen
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