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

Christophe Grandsire wrote:

>En réponse à Tristan <kesuari@...>:
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>>\begin[primarily self-centric]{post}
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>You forgot \end{post}...
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No, I just didn't include it :P

>>Pristophe Grandsire wrote:
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>No, Pristophe Brandsire!! ;)))
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I can't say I'm familiar with the brand Sire...

>>/me begins wondering about then Pristophe's sanity.
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>At least I never refer to myself with the third person singular ;))) . Although
>pretty much all other persons find their use to refer to myself ;))) .
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Bah, third and second persons are perfectly appropriate for referring to
oneself. First person for yourself is much too conventional...

> But then he starts
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>>wondering about his own... wondering about Pristophe's sanity
>>indeed...
>>what kind of a stupid, insane waste of time is that? :)
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>True. We yourself stopped wondering about my sanity a long time ago (does it
>make sense? It's not supposed to... :(( ). I know that I'm completely nuts. But
>hey, we are all mad people in a constant state of hallucination. It just
>happens that most of us hallucinate approximately the same thing most of the
>time!! :)))
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Can you back that up with any evidence?

>>I suffer from Pristophe's problem (see, I told you P was better. We
>>get
>>alliteration here!).
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>Alliteration with problem... Can we switch back to Christophe? I don't like to
>alliterate with such a word ;)) . Sristophe would be OK though ;)) .
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If you insist, crappy Christophe.

> Except that my Us and Vs look alike, my Ns look
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>>V-ish, my Ms look like Ns, as do my Rs, my Js look like Ys and my Ys
>>like Js or Gs, my Gs look like my Ys some of the time. I also have a
>>couple of ligatures. You may need to be practiced to read my
>>handwriting, but it's still neat and legible and predictable.
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>I have a nice one: my Bs often look like my Fs ;))) .
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I guess asking for a 'buck' in handwriting could be quite amusing for
you, then...

> And my capital Ds like
>capital Os. My Rs look like nothing (not even Rs ;))) ). I often switch my Hs
>and Ks (especially when I'm in a hurry).
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I tend to merge Hs and Ns more than Ks and Hs... Though Ks sometimes
look more Hs than Ks...

> And there's no gap between my small
>mm, nn or mn/nm. They are ligatured as a single letter with the appropriate
>number of bridges ;)) (my whole handwriting is connected, but it often confines
>to the fusional ;))) ).
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When writing to be legible, I tend to have my letters individual except
in a few two-letter cases, like fi, ti, gh, th etc. When writing for
myself quickly, I'll write entire lines only lifting the pen up to dot
my Is (lift the pen at the end of the relevant word for Is, never any
other time). Which I *always* do, because otherwise the I wouldn't
exist, as often as not.

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bnathyuw wrote:

>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 . . . !
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Actually, that's A4L (or A4d.. Or maybe it's lA4? Pardon my
inaccuracies)... A4 paper is 297 x 210 mm. The depth is stated first and
then the width. Sorry for being pedantic, I can't help it and get
annoyed when things like Acrobat Reader insist on showing the dimensions
backwards...

Tristan.

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