Re: OT More pens

En réponse à Dirk Elzinga :


>I recall handwriting instruction in elementary school also being, well,
>uninspiring. The teacher didn't like teaching it (which was obvious to
>us even then) and of course we didn't like having to do it. The script
>which we were taught seemed so far removed from what we saw in print or
>how our teacher really wrote on the board, that it seemed pretty
>pointless to try to learn it. That was my reaction, anyway.
Strange. First, teachers who teach how to write in France *always* write on
the blackboard with that same cursive handwriting. Second, I've never
connected in my head writing with printing. It seems to me just natural
that what you do with your hand should be different from what's printed on
books. It's not the same thing after all.

>  My
>handwriting didn't turn out all that badly for it, though. Now many
>teachers are using Denelian script, which has a cursive variant which
>isn't too far removed from printing. It strikes me as being more
>"European" in appearance; that is, it looks more like what I saw people
>using when I was in Germany and the Netherlands.
You should look at my webpage, especially at the page "Ecriture et
Phonologie" of my Azak. I scanned tables of the characters of the Azak
script with their names in Roman script using my handwriting. It hasn't
much evolved since I made this page. Please tell me if my handwriting looks
"European" to you or not, so that I get an idea of what you mean :)) .

One thing is sure though, is that cursive is still common. I've been a
corrector in the University of Delft, and 99% of the papers I've had to
correct were written in cursive.

Also, I find blockwriting difficult to read and tiring. Cursive *flows*
better for my eyes.

Christophe Grandsire.

http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr

You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.

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