BS: what is the word for this? specifically

Subject: BS: what is the word for this? specifically
From: Mr Red
Date: 25 Aug 22 - 03:43 AM

OK - I have one I am looking for but I bet there are the visual versions of earworms that are bugging 'Catters right now. And searching for them needs the right question, that the web hasn't grown up enough to help. So post your questions, someone may know.

My word might be in the area of: logo, a word form, typography, graphical arrangement, and even but maybe not, per se, an acrostic. But there must be a word that describes what I see fingerpost - detail maker's mark.

Two words in cruciform that share a common letter in the centre. Does acrostic truly fit (given the modern meaning)?

Subject: RE: BS: what is the word for this? specifically
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 25 Aug 22 - 05:26 AM

How about "crucilogo"?

OK, it's not a real word ...... yet! But with a bit of effort, we could pepper the internet until it becomes accepted.

DC

Subject: RE: BS: what is the word for this? specifically
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Aug 22 - 07:23 AM

archtypalography?
However an earworm is emergent from repeating feedback loops.
Basic catagory images like flower tree animal are called symbolic in my mind.

Subject: RE: BS: what is the word for this? specifically
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 26 Aug 22 - 06:41 AM

Mr Red,
Do you know if the manufacturing company was 'Sheldon Wells" or "Wells Sheldon", or even "Sheldon" based in the town of Wells? The "Wells" looks like an add-on to me.


DC

Subject: RE: BS: what is the word for this? specifically
From: Mr Red
Date: 26 Aug 22 - 07:10 AM

good point! Failure of a good bit of juxta-graphicology?

Sheldon (in) Wells see Old Fingerpost, West Coker Hill / above A30

Subject: RE: BS: what is the word for this? specifically
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 26 Aug 22 - 07:12 AM

God knows what you obscurantist types are on about (note low number of responses to thread...), but I can tell you, irrelevantly, that Sheldon's family bakery make the best burger buns you can lay your hands on. Sainsburys, six for £1.20.

Subject: RE: BS: what is the word for this? specifically
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Aug 22 - 08:41 AM

Speaking of buns a local bakery here makes buns superior to anything I have had that work for everything.
Mr. Red do you think a surveyor could answer your question?

Subject: RE: BS: what is the word for this? specifically
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 26 Aug 22 - 09:08 AM

"Do you know if the manufacturing company was 'Sheldon Wells" or "Wells Sheldon", or even "Sheldon" based in the town of Wells?"

Looks like Sheldon Foundry in Wells. This is the best I've found

Subject: RE: BS: what is the word for this? specifically
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 26 Aug 22 - 04:53 PM

God knows what you obscurantist types are on about (note low number of responses to thread...)

Sometimes it's nice to get away from Trump, the Tory leadership race, Russian aggression, the failing economy, problems in the NHS and the effects of climate change.

DC

Subject: RE: BS: what is the word for this? specifically
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 26 Aug 22 - 05:51 PM

Well study wild flowers like I do, Doug, or buy the FSC guide to house and garden spiders for £3.30. No Trumpery nor Trussery need be involved.

Subject: RE: BS: what is the word for this? specifically
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 26 Aug 22 - 06:09 PM

HOW MUCH ??? £3.30?. I'm not made of money!

DC

Subject: RE: BS: what is the word for this? specifically
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 26 Aug 22 - 07:00 PM

But free delivery, Doug, and beautifully illustrated by Richard Lewington, the best (just telling you about it has made me forget all about Trusstrumptossery...)

Subject: RE: BS: what is the word for this? specifically
From: Mr Red
Date: 30 Aug 22 - 03:08 AM

Pedant alert

The word that fits the image is "Mesostic"

see Mesostic (same image, I do sometimes edit Wiki)

Subject: RE: BS: what is the word for this? specifically
From: Mr Red
Date: 30 Aug 22 - 03:15 AM

Mr. Red do you think a surveyor could answer your question?

No, a typographer or calligrapher maybe. Last time I asked a quantity surveyor, and also an architect, if they used the shoelace formula to calculate area - they had never heard of the algorithm. Computers do it for them. Now it's the Web, and probably Wiki - if you can phrase the right question/search terms.

Subject: RE: BS: what is the word for this? specifically
From: Mr Red
Date: 04 Sep 22 - 03:50 AM

God knows what you obscurantist types are on about


Way above someone's intellect, obviously.

Subject: RE: BS: what is the word for this? specifically
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 04 Sep 22 - 06:17 AM

Your inputs to this forum are interminably obscure (and not always particularly literate, sadly), and they show considerable strain in your efforts to enforce unnecessary mental processing on the rest of us. I don't lust after the kind of "intellect" you seem to think is required to deal with this brand of obscurantism. I'd far sooner read my grandson's copy of the Adventures of Spot the Dog. Still, I do appreciate the amusement I derive from your unfocussed input.

Subject: RE: BS: what is the word for this? specifically
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 04 Sep 22 - 07:32 AM

If you're not interested in the subject, Steve, then why not leave it alone? It's not necessary to have an opinion on everything.

DC

Subject: RE: BS: what is the word for this? specifically
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 04 Sep 22 - 07:51 AM

Pedant alert

The word that fits the image is "Mesostic"


Mr Red,

I don't think that the finger post, shown in your first link, qualifies as a mesostic. A mesostic has horizontal lines of text in which letters are picked out to form the vertical word.

A mestostic, to my mind, is just a lazy man's acrostic. The text is pushed left and right to force the letters of the vertical word into line. That, and the need to capitalise the selected letters (and thus leave the first letter of the line uncapitalised) to identify them, makes the whole thing inelegant.

The elegance of your finger post example is the L is the centre letter of each word, giving it a balanced cruciform shape. It could just as easily crossed on the E but that would have given an unbalanced motif, more like a gallows than a cross.

DC

Subject: RE: BS: what is the word for this? specifically
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 04 Sep 22 - 08:54 AM

I don't know whether or not I'll end up interested until I delve, Doug. I'm only a "universal expert" (at least according to Mr Red) because of my insatiable curiously. Unfortunately, it does lead to damp squibs at times...

Subject: RE: BS: what is the word for this? specifically
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 04 Sep 22 - 09:32 AM

curiosity

Subject: RE: BS: what is the word for this? specifically
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 04 Sep 22 - 09:38 AM

I often lurk in threads that may fire my imagination but I don't say anything until I've got something to say.

DC

Subject: RE: BS: what is the word for this? specifically
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 04 Sep 22 - 09:42 AM

I'm fairly likely to respond when prodded by little barbs, Doug.

Subject: RE: BS: what is the word for this? specifically
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 04 Sep 22 - 09:45 AM

Yes, I've noticed that.

DC

Subject: RE: BS: what is the word for this? specifically
From: robomatic
Date: 06 Sep 22 - 06:07 AM

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