The arrival of spring always heralds the beginning of what you might call New York Street Bargains Season. Sofie and I half furnished our previous apartment using items that we found in and around the streets of Prospect Heights/Park Slope, including a coffee table, lamp, chest of drawers, filing cabinet, and the wooden schoolteacher’s desk that I am currently sitting at.
When I came across this “cozy deal” at the weekend, I wasn’t totally convinced that I needed a well-used chair or these “broken in” pants. But I was impressed with the lengths the previous owner had gone to sell them, despite the fact that s/he didn’t stand to make a penny. Just goes to show that the marketing instinct is alive and well in America, even when goods are free.
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From the Sidewalk to Your Living Room (New York Magazine)
Paul,
I know you have a chum who takes the treatment of L’s very seriously. What about Z’s with a daft line through them? where do you stand vis a vis these abused Z’s?
I have no opinion on it. But I would be interested to know where it comes from.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C6%B5
Jeez, here’s your explanation. Some cretin (not a regnant), thinks that you might mistake the z for a 2 so they put that daft line in there. What they failed to consider was that English words do not ordinarily have numbers in the middle of them, so this courtesy was unnecessary. This person is an idiot.
I hope this clears things up for you.
This z=2 theory is not consistent and frankly I don’t like the smell of it. For instance, what could look more like a 5 than an S? but nobody slices their S accross the midrift do they?
There is more to this than meet5 the eye.