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

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>Check at the bottom of this page:
>http://www.momes.net/education/ecriture/graphismes.html to see an example
>of the cursive taught in France (the small letters are exactly as I was
>taught them, as are the capitals except for Q and Z. My Q looks like a 2,
>but my Z looks more like the block letter rather than the small cursive,
>and has a small tilde in the middle of the diagonal line).

Hm, so much for that theory....

My own experience with writing was this: I learned to write block
characters at home when 4 or so.  This continued to my first year at school
(Kindergarten and Lower Transition In Jamaica), when I was 5.  Next year
(Upper Transition) we learnt a cursive script.  Then I moved to Quebec, was
put into Grade 2 and was forced to use block letters again, because I
wasn't supposed to have learned cursive yet.  And then in Grade 3 I was
taught a *different* cursive, the "New Quebec Way" as the teacher called
it.  My handwriting (which was quite good when I was small) has never
recovered from this.

Anyway, I had always assumed that the New Quebec Way (which differs in
several ways from the British and North American cursives, and so proved
very inconvenient because most people have difficulty reading it) was based
on French handwriting, but it seems this is not the case.  The open bs and
ps may be from the French, but the r (the feature mosr people have
difficulty with) remains unexplained.

Ian

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