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

On Friday 18 October 2002 5:26 pm, you wrote:
>  --- Christophe Grandsire
>
> >  Except that my Us and Vs look alike, my Ns look
> >
> > > 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.
> >
> >
> > I have a nice one: my Bs often look like my Fs ;)))
> > . 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). 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 ;))) ).
>
> 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 . . . !
>
hmmm....

I write in Block letters, which have a tendency to tilt at random directions.


Nonetheless, it is still quite clear and legible, and the letters have all
the right shapes.  It's extremely scruffy, but clear.

The only ambiguous bit is that the capital R looks like a lowercase N, at
times.