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A sentence of Zalgo text. Combining characters have been used to create Zalgo text, which is text that appears "corrupted" or "creepy" due to an overuse of combining characters. This causes the text to extend vertically, overlapping other text. [2] This is mostly used in horror contexts on the Internet.
In the case of English-French lexical similarity, at least two other studies [7] [8] estimate the number of English words directly inherited from French at 28.3% and 41% respectively, with respectively 28.24% and 15% of other English words derived from Latin, putting English-French lexical similarity at around 0.56, with reciprocally lower ...
Friendster was a social networking service originally based in Mountain View, California, founded by Jonathan Abrams and launched in March 2003. [2] [3] Before Friendster was redesigned, the service allowed users to contact other members, maintain those contacts, and share online content and media with those contacts. [4]
The structural differences between multiple editions of Frankenstein have been analysed with overlapping techniques. [3]The problem of non-hierarchical structures in documents has been recognised since 1988; resolving it against the dominant paradigm of text as a single hierarchy (an ordered hierarchy of content objects or OHCO) was initially thought to be merely a technical issue, but has, in ...
Overlapping blends are those for which the ingredients' consonants, vowels or even syllables overlap to some extent. The overlap can be of different kinds. [9] These are also called haplologic blends. [17] There may be an overlap that is both phonological and orthographic, but with no other shortening: anecdote + dotage ⇒ anecdotage [n 2]
In writing and typography, a ligature occurs where two or more graphemes or letters are joined to form a single glyph.Examples are the characters æ and œ used in English and French, in which the letters a and e are joined for the first ligature and the letters o and e are joined for the second ligature.
These ligatures are proper letters in some Scandinavian languages, and so are used to render names from those languages, and likewise names from Old English. Some American spellings replace ligatured vowels with a single letter; for example, gynæcology or gynaecology is spelled gynecology .
For example, in English, the speech sounds [pʰ] and [b̥] can both occur at the beginning of a word, as in the words pat and bat. Since [pʰ] and [b̥] both occur in the same phonological environment (i.e. at the beginning of a word) but change the meaning of the word they form, they are in contrastive distribution and therefore provide ...