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[edit] The Nigerian Ǝ's Orientation
In the article it is said that "a similar letter with identical minuscule ǝ is used in the Pan-Nigerian alphabet, but has the capital form majuscule Ǝ, based on a horizontally flipped majuscule E." Is there any good source that can be cited in order to back up the statement that the letter is based on a horizontally flipped E as opposed to an E that's been rotated just like the little e is? Since any object having a horizontal axis of symmetry will look the same when it is flipped horizontally as it does when rotated 180 degrees around its center, and since the lower-case e is rotated 180 degrees around its center, why should the upper-case Pan-Nigerian letter be described as having a different transformation applied to it than the lower-case? -- SidShakal 08:31, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
- Because it is. A rotated majuscule E would look different; the middle bar would be lower than center and the top bar would be longer than the bottom bar, which would be ugly. Then again, a well-designed serif font wouldn't just use a horizontally flipped majuscule E either, since the serifs would have to be adjusted (many fonts have asymmetric serifs on e.g. the upper case letter T), but "flipped" still describes it better than "rotated". :-) - ∅ (∅), 22:03, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
