Visa vs signature 12:38 Aug 28, 2010
It seems to me that the French have a greater propensity than the Anglo-Saxo-Celtic to use a "mark" rather than a "proper" signature. They cultivate squarish "scrawls" that resemble Asian ideograms more than "our" linear signatures. We, on the other hand, when we want to be quick, will "initial" something, but that is a thing the French tend not to do. So visa is a personal "mark" somewhere between signature and initials, functioning as a signature but taking a form more akin to initials. |