Re: maggelish spelling reform (wasRe: english spelling reform)

bn wrote:
>
>my ays and ees often look alikeish. my ohs often look
>like standard ees, but not like ees in my handwriting.
>aitch and kay are distinguished by where they curve
>and where they point. yu and ie often distinguish by
>the dot only, except that the dot of the ie is
>frequently absorbed into any letter that comes before
>it ( arr, ef ) and forms the starting point for any
>above-the-line strokes afterwards. em is freqeuntly an
>extended line, whilst en has a ~45 degree slope in the
>middle. zed looks like a three, whilst ex looks like a
>reversed three. wye and gee are distinguished only in
>that gee has a complete loop at the top ( starting at
>the bottom and proceeding clockwise ) whilst wye
>doesn't. vee and arr often look similar, tho vee is
>more likely to connect with the next letter . . .
>
>anyway, what i can say for certain is that my writing
>takes up a HUGE amount of space. on A4 paper ( 210 x
>297 mm for those unfamiliar ) i can get about five
>words per line . . . !
My handwriting is almost always connected; I usually draw a single line per
word. Then, however, I go back and supply dots, diacritics, the rising line
in "x" and the vertical one in "t".

In rapid handwriting I tend to collapse certain distinctions, in particular
"h" vs "k". Final "r" and the ending "er" both tend to come out as a vaguely
rising line, whilst medial "r" tend to look either like a dotless "i" or
like a tilde. Medial "i" tends to become a horizontal line with a dot above,
whereas "å" (a-ring) can be pretty much any squiggle with a ring above. The
little word _är_ (a-umlaut plus "r") tends to become a rising line with two
dots above the lower (left) end. "y" sometimes look like a dotless "j", and
"ss" is sometimes indistinguishible from "n", while "c" and "e" tend to
merge.

My autograph of course tends to be extra unreadable - based on what my
sqiggles usually mean, it often looks more like "Avdrcas Jolann--" than
anything else.

                                                 Andreas

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