Freedom for Q

Language Log 2013-10-25

Summary:

Yasmine Seale discusses the (legendary and real) history of the Turkish alphabet: "Q v. K", LRB Blog, 10/16/2013. I was interested to learn that this version of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's signature, actually designed by the Armenian calligrapher Hagop Çerçiyan, is "one of the most popular tattoos in Turkey": There are some famous American signatures, but I've never [...]

Link:

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=8058

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Tags:

orthography

Authors:

Mark Liberman

Date tagged:

10/25/2013, 05:55

Date published:

10/24/2013, 11:14