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

On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 02:02:54PM -0400, Mark J. Reed wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 01:20:08PM -0400, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> > Plus, I still insist on writing o's clockwise, which makes my writing
> > extremely hard for others to read. :-)
>
> If you're kidding, then ha ha, and sorry for being dense. :)
> But what difference does it make what way you write your o's?
> Unless you have that little curlicue on the top, in which case I
> can maybe see it being confusing if it's going the "wrong way" . . .
[snip]

There's no difference when you write slowly, unless you're obsessive
enough to examine every glyph with a magnifying glass and do whatever they
do to analyse how a signature was written to determine which way a stroke
went.

But it does make a difference when you write fast: fast cursive tends to
have an open top (the O becomes almost like a U), whereas in my writing it
turns into a teardrop (or a gamma, depending on how you look at it). The
reason I write it clockwise is because (1) it's clockwise, and therefore
the right way to do it; and (2) because an O is supposed to be a closed
loop, not an open loop, which looks completely ugly.


T

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