SPQR Blues 3 part XXXVII

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Persnickety...

[meritahut.livejournal.com]

I said "three strokes" for an M up above, when I meant "four strokes." Just so you get your forgeries right :D

Re: Persnickety...

[dr-phil-physics.livejournal.com]

When I was studying Russian in college, I was appalled at the potential for abuse in cursive Cyrillic... I could write whole words, even sentences, which were long strings of slanted vertical lines looped together at the base -- and how the frick do you tell where the spaces are? At the time I joked that Russian doctors must be a disaster for writing prescriptions. Your strokes for "mille" above are obviously in the same class.

Dr. Phil

Re: Persnickety...

[meritahut.livejournal.com]

Ha! "Potential for abuse in cursive"! I love it. Every penmanship teacher should use that phrase at some point to keep the students in line.

That is, if penmanship is still being taught in the United States....

Re: Persnickety...

[kyleen66.livejournal.com]

You know... I don't believe "penmanship" is actually still taught very much.

Al-chan had a little cursive in grade school, in ONE year. It wasn't something they pushed.

Now, what they need to do, is MAKE children not only learn to read it, but write it well too.

My cursive isn't bad, but my print is easier to read. Hrm.

But then, I really try not to write by hand as much because I am far better with a keyboard than I am with a pencil.

It's just a sign of the times.

Re: Persnickety...

[muttering-ogre.livejournal.com]

When I was in elementary school, as we rebellious colonists call it, we were occasionally exhorted to write better but not given any advice as to how.