Re: Moi, le Kou (was: verbs = nouns?)

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From: Barry Garcia <Barry_Garcia@...>
To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU <CONLANG@...>
Date: Friday, January 12, 2001 9:37 PM
Subject: Re: Moi, le Kou (was: verbs = nouns?)


>This reminds me. When i wrote out my name in katakana in front of a friend
>who had studied for a year in Japan, she remarked that my handwriting was
>"girly" . Apparently it's too neat for guys, she says. Which dosnt
>surprise me too much because I write much neater in  other scripts than I
>do in Latin script (which if you see my class notes looks more like a
>scrawl than writing).
I wonder if that's a common phenomenon.  My Korean handwriting isn't great,
but it's generally considered far more legible than my broken half-cursive,
half-print and half-scrawl Roman alphabet handwriting (though I am painfully
conscientious about diacriticals after lots of half-points marked off on
French quizzes).  And my mom's Roman alphabet handwriting, OTOH, is much
neater and more "conventional" (like the forms they teach you when you're
learning to write) than her Korean handwriting.  My hypothesis is that when
you're writing in a not-as-familiar alphabet you don't know *what* you can
get away with modifying while still being legible.  (I don't know how anyone
associates cursive with print in English, frex; the letter-forms are in some
cases pretty darn different, and I think you have to learn 'em
separately....)

The one area where my "handwriting" is neatest is, alas, in math and
physics.  It sucks when you lose points because your lowercase mu got
confused for a 4...<G>

ObConlang: Do your conlangs have different written styles--calligraphy,
"print," "cursive," other?  I haven't worked with my conscript long enough
to figure out a "fast" cursive way of writing it, but give it time....

YHL