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

En réponse à Tristan McLeay :


>I think you may be a little confused about the terminology. Print refers
>not to writing that has come out of a printer, but to block letters.
OK. Still, you understood what I meant.


>Why? How many jobs require the ability to do cursive writing?
All the ones that require a sollicitation letter. It's considered basic
education to know how to write, and it's unthinkable that you write in any
other way but cursive.

>  None to
>very few in Australia, I'd say! It seems a very arbitrary thing to
>discriminate against. (With everything that says 'please print' or
>'block letters only!' or some variation on that theme, I'd be suprised
>if anyone *wanted* cursive.)
That's because you come from a culture which sees block letters as natural.
They are not in France. We consider *cursive* to be the natural way of
writing, and somebody not writing in cursive basically says "I don't even
know about basic things", and as such is not trustworthy. You mustn't
forget that cursive *is* the basic way to learn to write in France, not
block letters.


>Yeah, and I'm a monkey's uncle. (IME at least. YK--;)--MV) .)
Insulting me again!!!! I did indicate that it was *my* experience of
things. Who are you to doubt *my* perception of things?!!! ;((( You're not
in my head you know!!!

Christophe Grandsire.

http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr

You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.

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