Re: Devanagari handwriting?

On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 20:36:15 +0100, Steven Williams <feurieaux@...> wrote:

>Since learning the Devanagari abugida, I've been
>curious as to how it's handwritten in everyday usage.
>The script is _very_ difficult to write out as it is
>printed, especially on account of the top bar. Do the
>users of this alphabet just grin and bear it, or do
>they have some form that they use in informal
>day-to-day communication?
They just bear it, same as with amny other over-complicated thing in
Sanskrit not found in most other languages (e.g. dual case).

Hmm... I think a Devanagari script optimized for handwriting could go nicely
with my Ichwara Prana lang. Now there's food for thought :D

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Pascal A. Kramm, author of:
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