Handwriting

[simont]

[Poll #1324167]

eta: I forgot to say so specifically, but I hope the people who have ticked "something else interesting" will say what it was :-)

Comments

[simont]

Mmm. Yes, the concept of letters with a distinctively different cursive form from their printed form is part of what was interesting me about the whole idea. It's even more pronounced in Cyrillic (if I remember correctly from a few half-hearted Russian lessons I had in the 6th form): a few letters look so different that a non-native reader wouldn't even recognise them as the same letter without being told. Though, I suppose, a non-native reader of the Roman alphabet might justifiably think the same about our single- and double-storey 'a'.

[pm215]

Speaking of the Roman alphabet, have you seen Roman Cursive (as used in things like the Vindolanda tablets)?