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AncestralSpirit t1_jca12yh wrote

Reply to comment by fh3131 in Beautiful database of fancy symbols (No Ads) by kilotovi

I always wonder why the letter t and g look weird when they’re upside down

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half-clever t1_jca2y2u wrote

Seems like they used a letter that used the "normal" vertical space allotted to the letter t, not following the example of other letters being flipped and shifted down one vertical step.

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dclxvi616 t1_jcajdif wrote

They are legit characters in their own right that were never intended to be merely upside-down letters, so there is not a uniform upside-down alphabet to draw from, it's just using the closest approximations.

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Phxdown27 t1_jcdum3f wrote

What do you mean legit?

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dclxvi616 t1_jcdya9h wrote

I mean that’s not an upside-down ‘k’, it’s a character/symbol that’s there for some other legitimate purpose that just happens to look like an upside-down ‘k’. I dunno’ wtf that purpose is because it’s an obscure symbol, but that’s how it be.

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Fearchar t1_jcej397 wrote

Well, /ʞ/ in the International Phonetic Alphabet is used for a velar click.

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