[MR] Question on Banners

[David Chessler]

May be bad Italian, but it's good French.

At 04:17 PM 9/16/2007, Kathleen Madsen wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > True, but this really depends on the period, the "typeface" and the
> > general aesthetic.
> >
> > I've seen too many designs ruined by people using all-caps in
> > Blackletter or other heavily ornamental calligraphic hand that was
> > never intended to be used for all caps.
> >
> > Effingham
> >
> >
>Yes, but I'm afraid I've ruined mine in a completely different way.  I was
>planning to put the motto of our former Shire on it, "Mangia, mangia"  (eat,
>eat - in Italian).  I should have gotten out the dictionary because it ended
>up reading "mange, mange", which is an unfortunate skin ailment.  *sigh*
>It's a good thing it makes me laugh whenever I see it.  :)
>
>Baroness Eibhlin nic'Raghailligh, OL
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