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Really? You’re a moron, the tower is leaning because the ground is sinking on one side, the railing isn’t because it’s not part of the tower.
^^This^^
^^ seconded ^^
Is this tiny mistake really enough to qualify someone as being a moron?
yes
No, the mistake doesn’t make him a moron, being a moron is why he made the mistake.
A stone tower leaning italic style as he suggests? Seriously? What would cause it to lean? What would prevent it from falling apart? And really, look at an f-ing picture.
FYI It’s actualy curved, because it began tilting before it was finished, and the builders tried to compensate for it instead of tearing it down and moving it to a stable location.
“t’s actualy curved, because it began tilting before it was finished, and the builders tried to compensate”
^this.
I bet many people don’t know this fact, but this is probably the main reason for the joke above: the tower is, in fact, both “italic” (and italian
, of course), for the desperate try to compensate in the upper part, and “leaning”, for obvious reasons.
So, at first, I LoL’d, then … too.
on second thought… the poster must be trolling…. I doubt he/she made the image of the tower him/herself, so he/she had to distort the image in order to create the depiction of the “Italic tower”
For those who are old enough to remember “desktop publishing” in the ±90s, one had to be sure to select the italic typeface from the list, not just push the I button, which would give you a distortion of the Roman typeface—oblique, not true italic—much as the distortion of the tower on the left, compared to the leaning, or the equivalent of the true italic typeface, of the right tower. Granted, the real tower is not perpendicular to the ground, the railing does not lean, etc., but for those of us who remember computer-generated, oblique [not really] “italic” type, this is amusing.
Does anyone not know the difference?
The submitter, evidently.
Is the submitter making a point about italics, or the tower? Because I can see using the leaning tower as a reference. Italics are a distortion, not an angle.
The title, however, indicates that this meant to state that the Tower of Pisa is “Italic” not “Leaning”. Which is in error. The slant is not an architectural aesthetic choice, it is a structural failure; the tower is, in fact, at an angle. “Leaning”. There have actually been several stabilization evaluations and corrections made to prevent it from falling onto nearby structures.
I would be very reluctant to go there in case it happened to fall on my head
I am thinking that this is a comment on the computer-generated italic fonts, which are just distortions of Roman typefaces, unlike designed italic fonts. Try it yourself with a less-sophisticated program that applies bold and italic without using the typesetter’s designed font, there is a decided difference. As such, I found it a hoot!
Oblique, not italic.
Italic is completely the wrong word, unless they mean ‘relating to Italy’, in which case they are presenting an obvious false dichotomy and are only slightly less wrong.
Italic, in the sense which is implied by what little sensible context exists, is a purely typographical term, not a general geometric one. Even in this sense it is wrong, and SirFozz is correct to say that oblique would be a more appropriate description.
In any case, leaning is not such a specifically defined word that it can’t be applied to both examples validly. The relevance of the difference between the images exists only in the imagination of the poster.
It is also wrong because the tower actually does lean more similarly to the second image than the first to begin with.
This is completely stupid for so many reasons.
Also known as a horizontal shear.