frank Posted October 12, 2013 Report Share Posted October 12, 2013 A few of these misspelled medallions are still out there somewhere! http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2013/10/11/vatican-pulls-misspelled-lesus-coins/?hpt=hp_bn1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
constanius Posted October 12, 2013 Report Share Posted October 12, 2013 "But when the Vatican drew up the medal, it flubbed the Latin phrase, said spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi. (It's worth noting that Latin doesn't have a "J," so maybe we should cut the Vatican a bit of slack.)" The writer of the article does not mention(perhaps realize?) that the L should have been I, from the Latin IESVS for JESUS. A capital i ( I ) looks the same as a low case L ( l ) so perhaps that is how the mistake was made. The original instruction using Iesvs(capital i) which was interpreted as a low case L l. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Steve D'Ippolito Posted October 13, 2013 Report Share Posted October 13, 2013 I've come to hate most sans-serif fonts for this very reason. "Illinois" looks like it starts with three capital "i"s or three lower case "L"s (and note I chose the cases inside the quotes to make the distinction clear). Newer versions of Windows come with a font that put a small tail on the lower case "L." I noticed in Europe that gas pumps use a cursive lower case "L" for the lower case "L" abbreviation for "Liter" since it could look like a capital I or even a numeral "1" (though in Europe they tend to put the barb on top of the 1, sometimes making it as big as the rest of the number--crossing their sevens to disambiguate). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art1.2 Posted October 14, 2013 Report Share Posted October 14, 2013 I guess folks will be hunting for these. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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