Google Noto Fonts

Re:Google Noto Fonts by nkoren on Friday October 07, 2016 @08:06AM (#12659952)

I think it's sarcasm, actually? The target of my wit was not the mad typographers of Google, but rather the HN commentors who like to sprinkle comment threads on awe-inspiring subjects with dismissive pedantry. Sometimes it feels as though the CDC could announce that a universal cure for cancer has passed its phase 3 clinical trials, and the median HN response would be: "does this page really need to load 170kb worth of CSS? And why does it degrade so badly when I run NoScript?"

Or like the way that some people, when confronted with the awsome ineffable magnitude of my sense of humour...

</Ironic_humor> ;-)

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Re:Google Noto Fonts by HCIdivision17 on Friday October 07, 2016 @09:02AM (#12660284)

Gosh, there is a lot of depth to language. I like lisper's note because there are a lot of people whose first language is not English and may not know the difference; I like your rejoinder that it was sarcasm against another audience, but was ironic humor to Google. (We can write to multiple audiences at once, no?)

And now here's a font complete enough that perhaps I can find the right glyph to punctuate the idea. We need something with a bit more nuance than the interrobang, I think.

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Re:Google Noto Fonts by nkoren on Friday October 07, 2016 @11:26AM (#12661378)

Just to be clear, I quite liked Lister's note as well. I'm a language nerd myself, and always appreciate having more opportunities to cheekily overload some entendres.

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Re:Google Noto Fonts by bawana on Friday October 07, 2016 @09:28AM (#12660477)

sarcasm derives from the ancient greek meaning 'tearing of the flesh'. Sarcasm is intended to wound the recipient. Ironic humor is also a poke, but only tickles. I suggest a new word 'gargalism'.

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