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

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

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bnathyuw | landan | arR
stamp the sunshine out | angelfish
your tears came like anaesthesia | phèdre

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