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I apologize for this stupid question, but... Why writing like this is called "italics"? This have some links to Italian language? I hope I writed well... :rolleyes:

Anyway, thanks in advance.

EDIT: 300 posts. Whoa. I have to open a celebration topic? :P

[ Saturday, April 15, 2006 08:04: Message edited by: MagmaDragoon ]

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Well, it was invented by an Italian. I'm not sure that's the reason, though.

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Italic is the name of a style of calligraphy that slants to the right. (It's also the name of a language family, but I don't think that's quite as relevant.)

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Huh. The OED says that Aldus Manutius actually is the reason that slanted type is called "italics."

"Applied to the species of printing type introduced by Aldus Manutius of Venice, in which the letters, instead of being erect as in Roman, slope towards the right; first used in an edition of Virgil, published in 1501 and dedicated to Italy. In early use also Italica (sc. littera)."

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Smoo: Get ready to face the walls!
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