Re: OT More pens

This sort of thing has actual applications for me, strangely enough.  One of
my side-jobs at Disneyland is writing names on hats using a sewing machine
(you have to completely relearn the alphabet, because this is a genuine "no
stop" cursive; you only reposition the needle for dotting i's).  Foreign
Guests routinely find some of the letters we use to be strange, and most of
my Australian Guests have issues with reading what I've written.  Of course,
most of my foreign Guests also have serious issues with me asking them to
print their names on receipts as well as sign them...

Sarah Marie Parker-Allen
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http://lloannna.blogspot.com

It's all one big conspiracy, and it's all about me.
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From: "Tristan McLeay" <kesuari@...>

> On a side note, there's a related article on this topic at Slashdot
> <http://slashdot.org/articles/03/06/09/1924218.shtml?tid=146&tid=99>.
> Having read that, I seem to have discovered that 'cursive' in the US has
> a rather more specific meaning then it does over here and at least your
> lowercase Rs (and most uppercase letters---our uppercase letters are the
> same in print and cursive) look horribly different. Essentially the only
> changes between what I learnt as cursive and print are that in cursive,
> you get loops on ascenders/descenders and that make a few allowences for
> the letters being connected (s may also get its topped lobbed off, but
> that's entirely optional and not doing it wouldn't make your writing not
> cursive). I'm not sure whether our cursive is the italic/print-cursive
> they mention or not, though.

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