Re: OT More pens (was Re: Phoneme winnowing continues)

J Y S Czhang wrote:

>    To this day I can't write cursive. I asked the teacher, "Why should I
>bother to learn cursive if I am gonna be asked to print the rest of my life?
>
On a side note, there's a related article on this topic at Slashdot
<http://slashdot.org/articles/03/06/09/1924218.shtml?tid=146&tid=99>.
Having read that, I seem to have discovered that 'cursive' in the US has
a rather more specific meaning then it does over here and at least your
lowercase Rs (and most uppercase letters---our uppercase letters are the
same in print and cursive) look horribly different. Essentially the only
changes between what I learnt as cursive and print are that in cursive,
you get loops on ascenders/descenders and that make a few allowences for
the letters being connected (s may also get its topped lobbed off, but
that's entirely optional and not doing it wouldn't make your writing not
cursive). I'm not sure whether our cursive is the italic/print-cursive
they mention or not, though.

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Tristan                  <kesuari@...>

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