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

From: "Joe" <joe@...>
Subject: Re: OT More pens (was Re: Phoneme winnowing continues)


> From: "Stone Gordonssen" <stonegordonssen@...>
> Subject: Re: OT More pens (was Re: Phoneme winnowing continues)
>
> > >To be honest, I can't think of anything more useless than writing in
> > >cursive.  It makes things a lot harder to read.
> >
> > Calligraphy is not an art form for you? Okay.
>
> Okay, for art, perhaps.  But I don't see why it should be taught in
> schools...
"Cursive" as we learn in school (at least from my own experience) is not the
same as calligraphy.  What I learned as cursive writing has proven to be
completely useless, a sort of simplified copperplate calligraphy.  What I
would consider "calligraphy" has been very useful as an art form, and very
enjoyable, though I would never use it for everyday writing.

Part of the reason I have "calligraphy" and "writing" so separate is because
I'm left handed.  In order to draw the pen in the correct direction, I turn
the page 90 degrees to the right (so I'm writing like in Japanese).  The
effect is that of drawing a number of letter-like forms on a page, not
writing.  Everyone really likes my work, but I've made some pretty serious
mistakes on occasion.  The letters themselves look great, but on occasion
I'll duplicate a letter or a word, or perhaps omit a letter or word.  I
missed a whole line of text once.  That's what comes from "making a picture
of text" rather than "writing words".  It'd be like if I copied a page of
Tibetan writing, which I don't actually know how to read.