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ATTN: Dan Sulani! Re: OT More pens (was Re: Phoneme winnowing continues)

From:Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>
Date:Wednesday, June 11, 2003, 16:22
On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 12:04:46 -0500 Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...>
writes:
> > Second, I don't see the connection between the letters printed in > > books and letters written by hands. I've never felt like they were > > comparable, so why > > should I try to copy a machine?
> But, they're the same letters. It still seems odd to me to start > off with the form that's most different from what you see printed.
- We should ask Dan Sulani what they do in Israel, since many of the printed graphemes look nothing like the handwritten ones, for example the letter Alef looks vaguely like "X" in print, but "Ic" in 'cursive'. -Stephen (Steg) "oom" ~ the woc (backwards cow)

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