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

En réponse à Nik Taylor :


>I find it strange that cursive is what you're taught first.  :-)  Print
>is easier to produce, I think, plus it's much more similar to what is
>actually printed in books, so it seems to me that when you learn to
>recognize the letters, you would also learn to produce them, and the
>most logical system would be to learn to produce them the same way you
>read them.
I completely disagree with that statement. First, I find block letters
*much* more difficult to produce than cursive (my block letters are highly
irregular and difficult to read. My cursive is regular and legible).
Second, I don't see the connection between the letters printed in books and
letters written by hands. I've never felt like they were comparable, so why
should I try to copy a machine?

>   Do kids in France learn "when you read 'A' it looks like
>this, but when you write it, it should look like this"?
No. And I fail to see the point. It's just natural to separate handwriting
from book printing. Those things are completely different (one is done by a
human being, the other by a machine), so I fail to see why handwriting
should imitate machines. I must say all those arguments keep surprising me.
They are so remote from reality to me! :))

Christophe Grandsire.

http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr

You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.

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