----- Original Message -----
From: "Joseph Fatula" <fatula3@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 8:41 PM
Subject: Re: OT More pens (was Re: Phoneme winnowing continues)
> From: "Stone Gordonssen" <stonegordonssen@...>
> Subject: Re: OT More pens (was Re: Phoneme winnowing continues)
>
>
> > >i actually taught myself how to write, a year before i started
> > >preschool...
> >
> > I began in kindergarden, though my parents and teachers were annoyed
that
> I
> > preferred the Phonecian characters from that funny page in the
dictionary.
> > :)
>
> I remember writing a letter to my parents (around age 8 or so) that was
> entirely in Fraktur. I had a wide-edged writing tool that I had been
using
> for rudimentary calligraphy, when they bought a new dictionary that had
> Fraktur in the front of it. I would have used the Arabic listed there,
but
> I figured they wouldn't be able to read it.
>
I remember trying to write in Fraktur when I was 8 or so. Only I tried to
do it with a normal pen, so it didn't work.