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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.