Re: CHAT: Handwriting (was Re: CHAT: Coming out of the conlang closet)
From: | Tim May <butsuri@...> |
Date: | Monday, June 3, 2002, 21:52 |
Nik Taylor writes:
> Andreas Johansson wrote:
> > I do anti-calligraphy; most people think my handwriting is dead ugly, but
> > they admit that is easily readable ('xcept when I write really fast, but
> > then I tend to abolish such fine distinctions as |k| vs |h| vs |b|, |a| vs
> > |u|, |c| vs |e| vs |r| vs |s| vs |-|, and |y| vs |j|).
>
> What about {u} and {v}? Those are two that I always have trouble with
> in my own writing. I cannot consistently distinguish them, unless I
> write those letters very slowly.
>
Interesting. The 2 pairs that get confused in my own writing are |r|
vs |v| and |n| vs |u| - at speed it becomes harder to retrace a line
accurately.