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

On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 22:54, Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> En réponse �  Ian Spackman :
>
>
> >Anyway, I had always assumed that the New Quebec Way (which differs in
> >several ways from the British and North American cursives, and so proved
> >very inconvenient because most people have difficulty reading it) was based
> >on French handwriting, but it seems this is not the case.  The open bs and
> >ps may be from the French, but the r (the feature mosr people have
> >difficulty with) remains unexplained.
>
> 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 ;)) ).
So how do you connect an o? It's connector is up the top.

(The way I learnt to print was similar to Christophe's, though less,
well, rounded: the after-bit on the b, for example, didn't have a circle
on it, and the inny of the k comes to a point. I guess this is the
difference between biros and fountain pens. And goshdarnit, print-style
caps! Take a look at the PDFs at the bottom of
<http://www.sofweb.vic.edu.au/eys/lit/newresources.htm>.

(The biggest difference between Victorian Modern Cursive with speed
loops and my note-taking handwriting, other then messiness and flatness,
is that my b have been closed, my z are dashed print-style, my t, f and
x are written as one line (so my x looks a bit like an ash), my J has a
top bit, U doesn't come back down to the baseline, and my G has both
horizontal and vertical things at its end. My print is a neater,
unconnected[1] version of my note-taking handwriting, has no descender
in the f and my x is more like a lc gamma that stays above the line, or
is written as a cross. My a also sometimes has the top bit. My normal
handwriting is a mix of the two, sometimes connected, sometimes not. My
7 is dashed, and all numbers are cap-height, which I'm sure is how I
learnt them. If I were to write in cursive, it would be VMC w/speed
loops.)

[1]: This has the effect of leaving a negligible distinction between u
and v, which I was taught were distinguished only by the connector (top
for v, bottom for u).

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Tristan.