All It Takes is One Little Letter to Turn a Loving Mother into a Felon
In one of my grad classes, I have to read a lot of writings by explorers and philosophers from the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. These writings are usually kept in their original form to add to the authenticity of the account, which usually makes reading them a pain in the ass for a variety of reasons. One is that they didn't spell a lot of words the way we do now and would just throw in random capitalization and punctuation, making it hard to know what the hell they were talking about. Another, is that certain letters were interchangeable on early printing presses. The "u" and the "v" are the most common examples, but it wasn't limited to just those letters. If you know me in real-life and/or are my friend on my personal Facebook page, then you also know the interchanging of the "s" and "f" was about to make me pull my blonde hair out by its less blonde roots. Other than being annoying and slowing down my reading, it didn't really effect the meaning of anything I was reading. Until today...
Can you find the part of this writing that transforms nursing mothers and wet nurses into pedophiles?
I wonder if this is around when they figured out maybe "S" and "F" aren't interchangeable after all?
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I wonder if this is around when they figured out maybe "S" and "F" aren't interchangeable after all?
3 Talk to Me:
Bwahahahahahaha!
As someone with a history degree, the interchanged letters barely phase me anymore, but... that has got to be the funniest switcheroo I've ever seen!
LOL!
That'f really sunny!
I hear there is a website out there somewhere where the modern-day iphone spell check causes the same...er...miscommunications.
Bill
Oh damn, I never thought I'd see that word in print in any non-porno form and certainly not in that type of context.
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