Re: OT More pens (was Re: Phoneme winnowing continues)
From: | Ian Spackman <ianspackman@...> |
Date: | Thursday, June 12, 2003, 14:13 |
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>How is the r written in the New Quebec Way? The one we learn in France, as
>you could see on the example, is actually much like the block small letter
>'r', except that another leg is added to it so that you end up again at the
>baseline and can connect to the next letter (whether it's there or not ;)) ).
And most Roman cursives (so far as I know) have that extra leg.
The Quebec rs lack the extra leg, so that they're very similar to a block
r. This make it very difficult to read for those used to the extra leg,
particularly in combinations like rn, which can look a lot like m.
Ian
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