Re: Phoneme winnowing continues

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 :)) .

Christophe Grandsire.
http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr

You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.

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