... It might be a trick of the brain, or it might be an trend. I don't have the exact figure. A small, but significant percentage of today's school students...
... Why doesn't that count as cursive? Apparently it became quite the thing in Britain under the influence of Alfred Fairbank. Or are you thinking that only...
... It should, but for some reason, neither educators, nor graphologists consider Italic writing to be cursive. [Show them a sample of Italic writing, and the...
... I don't know what d"Nealian is, but Italic is, by definition, cursive; but the question is what your "educators, nor graphologists" mean by the term. -- ...
... It is one of the more commonly taught copybooks in the US. ... The tendancy is to equate Italic scripts with printed writing, not cursive writing. xan ...
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Hi, Although I am a fan of the diversity of writing styles. when it comes to education, I think keyboarding wins hands-down. When my daughter was beginning...
Hi all - I was at an event last night on the topic of outsourcing and one of the tables was decorated with flags. One flag, ostensibly Pakistani, had Arabic or...
On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 15:49:39 -0400, Peter T. Daniels ... To Qalamites, surely. I'm moderately curious what an Average Joe or Average Jill in the USA would say,...
... Yeah, it does. Maybe not to you, but at zeroth or first glance to most people. Didn't it derive from Arabic turned 90° in the first place? (which...
... My! What a lovely collection of specimens, at least to these eyes. Some have much-more-easily-distinguished letterform details than several sperimens I've...
... Arabic calligraphy is extremely well-developed and a breathtakingly beautiful artform. There is a lot of artistic and historic work out there, and lots to...
Some time ago, I was trimming off excess black plastic from the uprights for a low-cost, poorly-designed set of storage shelves. The shavings were maybe an...
Mark E. Shoulson wrote:
> Inter-script typography can bend the brain in interesting ways. What > would Garamond-style Hebrew look like? Or Frank-Rhuel...
Hello again! The 2 prime marks used in Hebrew should be called GARSHEM and GERSHEMIN (Gimel-Re'sh-Shin-Mem, with optional final Nun). The *garshem* is used...
... --Reply-- Hello! The h-digraphs are very common in English and in various other languages, where <h> signals a modification (usually from a tenue or...
... Actually I think Israelis call it a "chupchik"(*) (that's with the tS affricate for "ch", not IPA /x/), but that's an informal term. I've never heard it...
Hello again! On the Irish Gaelic digraphs, I do need to clarify something: <s> slender (<se>, <si>) -- IPA [S] <t> slender (<te>, <ti>) -- IPA [tS] <d> slender...
... <rob_wheel12@y...> wrote: This posting is best viewed in the Unicode encoding. ... The voiceless and voiced lateral fricatives are [K] and [K\]. The voiced...
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Hello, Qalamites. I need some help with a small essay I am writing. I am describing the writing systems in current usage in the world. For each writing system,...
... For each ... more of ... would like ... Sorry Marco, no spaghetti, but I have posted 16 words that sound like their English equivalents. At least a few...
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... Thank you very much, Suzanne. ... OK, time for laughing: - aarañsh: "orange"? (The color or the fruit?) - kaapi: could it be "coffee"? - rootti: no...
... items, ... Unicode.) ... Actually, excellent work, Marco, you pass with flying colours!!! ... word but quite popular, try again ... Tamil? -yes, but I have...
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