adhd_traco@piefed.social to Poetry@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days agoAmanda Gorman, For Alex Jeffrey Pretti "Murdered by I.C.E January 24"media.piefed.socialimagemessage-square16linkfedilinkarrow-up182arrow-down11
arrow-up181arrow-down1imageAmanda Gorman, For Alex Jeffrey Pretti "Murdered by I.C.E January 24"media.piefed.socialadhd_traco@piefed.social to Poetry@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days agomessage-square16linkfedilink
minus-squareZikeji@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·5 days agoLooks like the font + italics is rendering the ampersand (&) weird. At least too me it just looks like a really fancy ampersand.
minus-squaremisericordiae@literature.cafelinkfedilinkarrow-up6·5 days agoYeah, it’s just a fancy ampersand. The wiki article has examples of similar-looking ones, if OP wants to confirm.
minus-squarecazssiew@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·5 days agoIf you look higher up in the article you’ll see the ampersand is actually a stylized representation of the Latin word ‘et’, which is a lot clearer when looking at the one in the poem.
Looks like the font + italics is rendering the ampersand (&) weird. At least too me it just looks like a really fancy ampersand.
Yeah, it’s just a fancy ampersand. The wiki article has examples of similar-looking ones, if OP wants to confirm.
If you look higher up in the article you’ll see the ampersand is actually a stylized representation of the Latin word ‘et’, which is a lot clearer when looking at the one in the poem.
Thank you both :)
yeah, that’s an ampersand