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

Christophe Grandsire wrote:

> What? Do you really think the letters we write are 8mm high?

Oh, of course not! (Apart perhaps from an f.) I'm not sure how this
misinterpretation arose: 10mm - 8mm is 2 mm. Letters themselves mightn't
increase in size, but to clearly fit a correction in (which might be
sizeable), an extra two mils of space (for a total of about four, maybe
five, but still not always enough for clarity after considering
ascenders/descenders) which isn't enough. (Okay, it could be enough if
you *really* wanted it to be. But perhaps I don't want it to be :) )


> (though my handwriting tends to be rather tall,
>
>> but IME my handwriting double-spaced is a lot more legible than anyone's
>> single).
>
>
> Maybe you just have a bad handwriting to French standards :)) .

That's not what I said, though. I said *anyones* (implying anyone's I've
seen).

And yes, I would say everyone here would have bad handwriting by French
standards, but if it's illegible by your standards, it's because you'd
be refusing to read something that wasn't cursive more than some
intrinsic quality of the writing. (A friend of mine has illegible
handwriting---even when writing carefully. No-one would dispute this:
it's not that it's written in a hard-to-decifer way, it's that it's
illegible.) My single-spaced handwriting is legible because it takes as
much space as is allocated (though it's still legible when small!) and
makes clear distinctions between the lettershapes. ... At least when
writing for other people; when writing for me it takes time to decypher :) )

> > I'm impressed.
>
> I'm not. I find it *normal*. It's basic education you know, that you must
> master after the first year of primary school (age 6-7). Anyone who can't
> has a serious learning problem and needs special help.
I'm impressed :)

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Tristan                  <kesuari@...>

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