typo?

“I shot the serif!” said the Spanish Radio 3 announcer, and Mr Clapton obligingly started clattering away at the press. Marshall McLuhan once observed that the new time sense of typographic man is cinematic, sequential and pictorial. I don’t know what the hell that means, and it certainly hasn’t helped me figure out whether Klingon is serified or not. In general, I prefer the Tolkien samples. Improbably I can’t find the characters on Unicode.

Go on, buy Language Culture Type: International Type Design in the Age of Unicode, which allegedly explains how the Japanese read:

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