a font that no one knows why it exists

[Benjamin Barrett]

On Mar 29, 2014, at 5:29 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 7:55 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:
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>> But it's not exactly English.
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> a font for whose existence there is no known reason.

I was playing around with devising something like that, but I don't really find this to be English, either, in the sense that it doesn't seem parsable without tearing it apart bit by bit. Is this a normal construction for some people?

Benjamin Barrett
Formerly of Seattle, WA

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