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

From:bnathyuw <bnathyuw@...>
Date:Friday, October 18, 2002, 16:34
to myself again

 --- bnathyuw <bnathyuw@...> 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 . . . ! >
having said all this, i once developed a sort of shorthand for writing things i didn't want others to read ( example at http://www.geocities.com/bnathyuw/shorthand.gif . . . it says 'the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog' ). judging by the trouble people have reading my scrawl, i don't know why i bothered ! bn ===== bnathyuw | landan | arR stamp the sunshine out | angelfish your tears came like anaesthesia | phèdre __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com