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05-26-2008, 06:43 AM
I can't actually tabulate, and there were many responses that were informative, whose information might tend to sway me in one way or the other, but I'd say on the whole that the pro-Four respondents outnumbered the pro-4's. Thanks to all for all the examples of fiction that managed to do all right despited having a numeral (i.e. a digit) in it, e.g. Catch 22, Fahrenheit 451; http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif (http://negothick.livejournal.com/profile)negothick (http://negothick.livejournal.com/) notes that in these the numeral doesn't come first, thus avoiding database problems. 300, 334, 253 would most likely always be databased as a number, right? Anyway I am going to accede to market wisdom here. Look for Four Freedoms in bookstores and databases everywhere soon(ish).
DE Gates, while weighing in on the Four side, asks this:
"Completely off-subject: I notice that in Windows VISTA, when playing a game like Solitaire, the court cards have a seasonal design, i.e., Diamonds are represented as Spring, Hearts, Summer, Clubs, Autumn, and Spades, Winter, as opposed to sceptre, ax, etc. Has anybody else picked up on this, and if so, what's its provenance?"
This is wonderful. Anybody know if the suits have these seasonal associations far back? Does the European set of cups-swords-wands etc., have such? Why those seasons and not others? I've never seen it on any standard deck. DId the Microsoft designers just invent it?
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DE Gates, while weighing in on the Four side, asks this:
"Completely off-subject: I notice that in Windows VISTA, when playing a game like Solitaire, the court cards have a seasonal design, i.e., Diamonds are represented as Spring, Hearts, Summer, Clubs, Autumn, and Spades, Winter, as opposed to sceptre, ax, etc. Has anybody else picked up on this, and if so, what's its provenance?"
This is wonderful. Anybody know if the suits have these seasonal associations far back? Does the European set of cups-swords-wands etc., have such? Why those seasons and not others? I've never seen it on any standard deck. DId the Microsoft designers just invent it?
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