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

Christophe Grandsire wrote:

> 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.

Yeah, but it's better to be accurate and understood than inaccurate and
potentially misunderstood (or misunderstand), so I'm just meaning to
help you.

> > 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.

But would a foreigner (which should be immediately apparent from their
CV) who spoke and typed French perfectly well be disadvantage because of
an inability to write cursively? For some reason it's not something
people seem to think of when they think of foreign languages. The
perception is is that one roman script is pretty much interchangeable
for another.

> > 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!!!
If the expression itself didn't give it away, I added the IME and
especially the YK--;)--MV to suggest that I was being more humorous and
certainly didn't intend to insult. (And the comment was directed to
'Cursive has more variety', which seems more of a proovable statement
based not on what's in your head, but what's on the paper. A section
(the size of a letter, but not necessarily containing an entire letter)
of print taken out of context is much more identifiable than a section
of cursive.)

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Tristan                  <kesuari@...>