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

From:H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@...>
Date:Monday, June 9, 2003, 18:40
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 -- No! I'm not in denial!