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

Christophe Grandsire wrote:

> 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.

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.
Writing that's come out of a printer is typed. (When not talking about
the writing, something printed probably has come out of a printer,
though.) When a form asks you to please print, it means use block
letters, not put it through a printer.

> 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
> ;))) .

Why? How many jobs require the ability to do cursive writing? 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.)

> 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.

Yeah, and I'm a monkey's uncle. (IME at least. YK--;)--MV) .)

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Tristan                  <kesuari@...>

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