09-26-2012, 11:49 AM
Gary, is that appointment for the 19th of November, or for November 2019? Two months is not that bad for a wait time, and the surgery date may depend on the severity of your case. I certainly wouldn't relish the thought of any type of eye surgery, but if the problem were acute, what are your options? I would hate to be in any way disabled, but blindness seems especially debilitating, and that's not to diminish the severity of other disabilities.
Actually, I plucked foofarah out of some dark recess of my mind (which often is "on recess")
, but a subsequent 'phone conversation with a friend who can sometimes be quite pedantic (not unlike myself, I suppose :oops: ) we got into a discussion of such terms. We were both sure that there must be a proper term for it but he said "I don't know where one would look for that information."
He's a real technophobe, only recently acquiring a TV in order to be able to view railroad DVDs. One of his favourite expressions, often joked about at one of the local hobby shops is "Well, I certainly won't be looking for it on www-dot-anything!", the actual wording usually peppered with expletives.
However, after our conversation, some googling (wassat?) finally came up with the answer, although it took quite a few tries to come up with wording to express that for which I was searching.
He was almost aghast that the internet had come to the rescue, but I think he's coming around a bit - at least I can make mention of it without getting a diatribe on the evils of technology.
That "foofarah" is actually composed of two parts, with the horizontal stroke capping the lower curve being a simple serif, as found on Roman-style lettering. The little vertical or sometimes angled tail is actually known as a "spur", while a true typographic "tail" is the foofarah which turns a capital "O" into a capital "Q".
For the one or fewer who may be interested in this subject, there's a little more on it HERE.
Wayne
Actually, I plucked foofarah out of some dark recess of my mind (which often is "on recess")
, but a subsequent 'phone conversation with a friend who can sometimes be quite pedantic (not unlike myself, I suppose :oops: ) we got into a discussion of such terms. We were both sure that there must be a proper term for it but he said "I don't know where one would look for that information." He's a real technophobe, only recently acquiring a TV in order to be able to view railroad DVDs. One of his favourite expressions, often joked about at one of the local hobby shops is "Well, I certainly won't be looking for it on www-dot-anything!", the actual wording usually peppered with expletives.
However, after our conversation, some googling (wassat?) finally came up with the answer, although it took quite a few tries to come up with wording to express that for which I was searching.
He was almost aghast that the internet had come to the rescue, but I think he's coming around a bit - at least I can make mention of it without getting a diatribe on the evils of technology.
That "foofarah" is actually composed of two parts, with the horizontal stroke capping the lower curve being a simple serif, as found on Roman-style lettering. The little vertical or sometimes angled tail is actually known as a "spur", while a true typographic "tail" is the foofarah which turns a capital "O" into a capital "Q".
For the one or fewer who may be interested in this subject, there's a little more on it HERE.
Wayne