Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2012 April 14

= April 14 =

Typographical device using bold and regular without whitespace.
I have increasingly been made aware of a curious typographical device whereby two words are joined together to remove the whitespace between them, as in CamelCase, but instead of using a capital letter to delineate the separate words they are formatted alternately in bold and regular weights, consider the example below, from the logotype of the company Kids Unlimited:


 * Original &mdash; Kids Unlimited
 * CamelCase &mdash; KidsUnlimited
 * bold/regular &mdash; kidsunlimited

I have seen many more examples of this device in use, but the one shown is the only one I can immediately recall. Is there a name for such a thing? -=# Amos E Wolfe talk #=- 06:11, 14 April 2012 (UTC)
 * I'm verycurious! --Kjoonlee 09:04, 15 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Agreed. Ads do that with words of different color too, not just different fonts. It's very annoying IMO.  &#x2013; b_jonas 10:51, 15 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Dunno, but maybe we can make one up. What about FONTcase, or, more particularly, typefacecase, or typecase? Benyoch (talk) 18:05, 15 April 2012 (UTC)

Name by which Venetians referred/refer to outsiders
Is there a Venetian term for visitors to their city? - current/derogatory/historical - doesn't matter which.

Thanks Adambrowne666 (talk) 14:28, 14 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Forèsto is the Venetian word for "foreigner/stranger", but I have no idea if that is used generally to refer to tourists. If no one else responds here you might try the Oracolo. Lesgles (talk) 01:40, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Or the Ciàcołe on the Venetian Wikipedia. --Terfili (talk) 11:35, 17 April 2012 (UTC)