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Re: Phoneme winnowing continues

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Sunday, June 8, 2003, 19:53
Quoting Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>:

> En réponse à Dirk Elzinga : > > > >Only a few companies now really pay careful attention to the > functional > >aspects of a fountain pen (Pelikan, Pilot, Namiki, maybe Parker), > while > >companies which once made outstanding pens now turn out expensive > crap > >(most notably Montblanc; I don't know anything about Cross, though I > >suspect them to be posers). > > I've been reading this thread with wonder: do you really mean that > fountain > pens are uncommon in America?!!!!! In France, not only they are > extremely > common, safe and cheap, but pupils are *obliged* to learn to write > with > fountain pens. All fountain pens we usually have are empty, and you > put > small plastic ink reserves in them to use them. All important things I > write I use a fountain pen for it. I've never been, since I've learned > to > write, without a fountain pen with me, and I don't have expensive ones. > The > cheapest ones are hardly more expensive than a ballpoint, and since > afterwards you only need to buy ink reserves, they prove to actually > be > cheaper in the long run :)) .
I don't think I've ever owned a single fountain pen - I have dozens and heaps of ballpoint ones. I've written with fountain pens a few times, tho'; possibly I ran across some very good ones, but I found them little harder to use than a ballpoint. What I typically use for writing nowadays, tho', is a _stiftpenna_. I dunno the English word - it's those plastic things with a thin graphite rod in. Would they class as "pencils"? I'm rarely to be found without one of those. Andreas

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