7 Jun
2006
7 Jun
'06
4:12 p.m.
A couple of questions, just to satisfy my curiosity: - A book I'm working on has a small dagger or sword symbol (point down, handle up) next to some dates. It looks something like the "dagger" symbol in Windows' Arial font, Unicode U2020. Two examples, with an exclamation mark substituting for the symbol, are "Occam ! c. 1349" and "Colet ! 1519". What does this symbol mean? - On several books' copyright page, I've seen the statement "all rights reserved, including that of translation into foreign languages, including the Scandinavian." Why are Scandinavian languages specially noted like this? Al