Re: CHAT: C in Greek Alphabet

Scratch pens and penmanship class - definitely a generational gap.  As
a kid I remember wondering how Charlie Brown could possibly make such
a mess with a pen.

Then I tried my hand at calligraphy.  Yikes.

On 4/7/07, Roger Mills <rfmilly@...> wrote:
> Mark J. Reed wrote:
> > CC = Charlie
> > CC> I remember, when learning cursive decades ago, that the final 't' had
> > CC> a different form than the initial/medial 't.'  It didn't have to be
> > CC> crossed.  On those extremely rare occasions when I write in cursive
> > CC> nowadays, I still use that form.
> >
> > Uncrossed final t - I haven't seen that.  I would probably take it for
> > a simplified l.
> >
> No, it didn't have a loop; and it had an extra little curvy upstroke that
> rose off the bottom. _/|(   --scrunch those all together as a continuous
> stroke, join the paren to the bottom and reduce it to about 1/4 size. Hard
> to describe :-))) I haven't used or seen it since maybe the 1950s. Good old
> Palmer Method Penmanship, of sainted memory. How we hated those exercises,
> done with an old "scratch pen" as we called it (no fountain pens allowed!!
> and ball-points hadn't been invented). I had a big crush on my 4th grade
> teacher, whose script was perfect.
>
> Seems to me there were two forms for "r" too, but I could be wrong.
>

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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>