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25 Aug 22 - 03:43 AM (#4150958) Subject: BS: what is the word for this? specifically From: Mr Red 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)? |
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25 Aug 22 - 05:26 AM (#4150966) Subject: RE: BS: what is the word for this? specifically From: Doug Chadwick 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 |
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25 Aug 22 - 07:23 AM (#4150976) Subject: RE: BS: what is the word for this? specifically From: Donuel archtypalography? However an earworm is emergent from repeating feedback loops. Basic catagory images like flower tree animal are called symbolic in my mind. |
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26 Aug 22 - 06:41 AM (#4151034) Subject: RE: BS: what is the word for this? specifically From: Doug Chadwick 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 |
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26 Aug 22 - 07:10 AM (#4151035) Subject: RE: BS: what is the word for this? specifically From: Mr Red good point! Failure of a good bit of juxta-graphicology? Sheldon (in) Wells see Old Fingerpost, West Coker Hill / above A30 |
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26 Aug 22 - 07:12 AM (#4151036) Subject: RE: BS: what is the word for this? specifically From: Steve Shaw 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. |
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26 Aug 22 - 08:41 AM (#4151047) Subject: RE: BS: what is the word for this? specifically From: Donuel 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? |
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26 Aug 22 - 09:08 AM (#4151049) Subject: RE: BS: what is the word for this? specifically From: Jon Freeman "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 |
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26 Aug 22 - 04:53 PM (#4151085) Subject: RE: BS: what is the word for this? specifically From: Doug Chadwick 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 |
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26 Aug 22 - 05:51 PM (#4151098) Subject: RE: BS: what is the word for this? specifically From: Steve Shaw 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. |
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26 Aug 22 - 06:09 PM (#4151101) Subject: RE: BS: what is the word for this? specifically From: Doug Chadwick HOW MUCH ??? £3.30?. I'm not made of money! DC |
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26 Aug 22 - 07:00 PM (#4151107) Subject: RE: BS: what is the word for this? specifically From: Steve Shaw But free delivery, Doug, and beautifully illustrated by Richard Lewington, the best (just telling you about it has made me forget all about Trusstrumptossery...) |
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30 Aug 22 - 03:08 AM (#4151438) Subject: RE: BS: what is the word for this? specifically From: Mr Red Pedant alert The word that fits the image is "Mesostic" see Mesostic (same image, I do sometimes edit Wiki) |
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30 Aug 22 - 03:15 AM (#4151440) Subject: RE: BS: what is the word for this? specifically From: Mr Red 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. |
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04 Sep 22 - 03:50 AM (#4151918) Subject: RE: BS: what is the word for this? specifically From: Mr Red God knows what you obscurantist types are on about Way above someone's intellect, obviously. |
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04 Sep 22 - 06:17 AM (#4151920) Subject: RE: BS: what is the word for this? specifically From: Steve Shaw 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. |
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04 Sep 22 - 07:32 AM (#4151925) Subject: RE: BS: what is the word for this? specifically From: Doug Chadwick 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 |
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04 Sep 22 - 07:51 AM (#4151926) Subject: RE: BS: what is the word for this? specifically From: Doug Chadwick 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 |
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04 Sep 22 - 08:54 AM (#4151930) Subject: RE: BS: what is the word for this? specifically From: Steve Shaw 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... |
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04 Sep 22 - 09:32 AM (#4151932) Subject: RE: BS: what is the word for this? specifically From: Steve Shaw curiosity |
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04 Sep 22 - 09:38 AM (#4151934) Subject: RE: BS: what is the word for this? specifically From: Doug Chadwick I often lurk in threads that may fire my imagination but I don't say anything until I've got something to say. DC |
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04 Sep 22 - 09:42 AM (#4151935) Subject: RE: BS: what is the word for this? specifically From: Steve Shaw I'm fairly likely to respond when prodded by little barbs, Doug. |
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04 Sep 22 - 09:45 AM (#4151936) Subject: RE: BS: what is the word for this? specifically From: Doug Chadwick Yes, I've noticed that. DC |
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06 Sep 22 - 06:07 AM (#4152123) Subject: RE: BS: what is the word for this? specifically From: robomatic SCRABBLE I T |
