Posted on 09/25/2018 4:03:19 PM PDT by detective
Was this before or after Smart Phones and Thumb typing. 😀
B$. A Fax is a copy just not a high resolution copy. It does not OCR the document then reassemble it at the destination. The only way to get different fonts in a copy is for someone to put them there.
There is a tie when numbers look fine in a statement, other times it looks much better as spelled out words and you can definitely tell when one is preferable to the other. If it looks stupid, don't do it.
Faxes are notorious for lousy positioning, leading to stretched/squished lines exactly as seen there. That plus low res plus bad noise rejection leads to cumulative artifacts which current users can’t comprehend and attribute to conspiracy theories.
In the current example, the height variations aren’t matched by proportional width variations - which would be consistent for poor editing, but not for a fax by a user not keenly aware of imaging issues.
Usually when someone tries to fax a book page or something similar. The other issue is how many people have dedicated fax machines anymore. Virtually all laser printers have fax/copy built in. I haven't kept up with color inkjets.
Many still use old sheet-feeder fax machines. They’re old. They’re crappy. And those who remember pre-fax days, and aren’t technically inclined, still use the **** things.
People from differing eras of document processing don’t grasp how wildly different other eras were/are from their own. Most people think I’m lying & deranged when I describe the “state of the art” of 1980’s era document processing; I was there, it was almost incomprehensibly different from today’s near-paperless environment.
I have been around since 12 party phone lines were new. I have a friend who is a font designer and could tell you if the fonts were changed. My first copy experience involved indelible pencils and a gelled sheet pan.
Then perhaps we can have a sane discussion of the topic. That would be nice for once...
And my grandson has been taught to write it correctly, in school, so what I posted still holds true; as I said it does.
I hope she’s asked about this...
Correct usage.
It is not on the main keyboard, it requires another key press and smart phone users especially tweeters abbreviate everything, so get used to it. What we are taught to do and how the real world works is hardly ever the same thing.
But hey, at least they don't have caps lock keys on Smart Phones, a small blessing I guess. There are enough Grammar Police on fr without encouraging new ones.
This is one as I get, A font can not be changed by a fax machine, not even an old one.
And FYI...using the apostrophe, even WRONGLY, means that you have to go to the next screen on an iPhone; so your rather silly post is senseless! The difference is where one puts or doesn't put the apostrophe. And if it is spelled CORRECTLY, ( 1980s ) no apostrophe is needed at all; which blows your "theory" completely out of the water. :-)
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