Re: OT More pens (was Re: Phoneme winnowing continues)
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, June 10, 2003, 9:28 |
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En réponse à kendra :
>I know, it always seemed rather backwards to me. Why hassle us so much about
>good penmanship and writing in cursive if they hardly ever made us do it? I
>write in cursive because I like the way it looks but mainly because I think
>too fast to write in printing (the excrutiating slowness gets to me after a
>few lines,) but most people don't even know how to write in cursive anymore.
They would have a hard time in France ;))) . For instance, a sollicitation
letter in France *must* be handwritten (printed letters are not allowed,
it's always specified) and a letter written in block letters will always be
less attractive than a letter in cursive. At equal background, it's likely
that the one written in cursive will result in an interview, while the one
written in block letters will result in the standard "no" letter back ;))) .
Also, written block letters are much slower to read for me, less
distinctive, and thus reading is much slower and tiring that way. Cursive
has more variety.
> >Indeed. That's how we learn to write. Pages and pages of small and capital
> >cursive letters.
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>Ah, I see. We only had to do those in third grade, on that massive paper I
>referred to.
So strange...
>As for the 4h long exams, the only exam we had that was that long were APs,
>and we had two hours to write three essays. I have absolutely no problem
>writing that much, but I do a lot of drawing and writing anyway, so I guess
>that's why. Whenever we wrote essays in class it was just during the class
>period (~50 minutes.)
Hehe, those exams I referred to also last during the class period. Yes, I
do mean that we have classes lasting for 4 hours :) (with a 5min pause
every 55min, and a longer pause after two hours).
>Yes, I remember having the letters up above the board. Though never for the
>lower grades, those all had the block printing ones. And when we learned
>cursive we used pencil!! I don't think we were ever allowed pens except for
>the dreaded Final Drafts.
Pencil in France is used only for drawing and for notes. At least that's
how we learn to use it. Normal writing is with fountain pens.
Christophe Grandsire.
http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr
You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.
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