All images on the site appear broken to me, using Chrome on Mac. Is it a site-issue or a me-issue?
I'm on Vivaldi on mac and images are fine here. So... maybe an extension or something else?
Backtrack-Free Cursive
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#42Huh, I just indirectly learned from this article that the way I write a lower-case "t" in cursive is a Dutch way of doing so ( edit: sollniss' comment implies it was a common style in Germany too). A quick search suggests it has been replaced with an English style of "t" in the last decades too. I wonder if that makes my handwriting harder to read for anyone who isn't Dutch and over 40 years old. Anyway, just bringin…
Also the x thing is common knowledge in India, and maybe most countries with Independence days. I switched to backtrack though.
I've learned to write x the way this post says (two mirrored c's) but I don't understand what you mean by "independence days". We don't have one in France anyway.
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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
Also the x thing is common knowledge in India, and maybe most countries with Independence days. I switched to backtrack though.
I've learned to write x the way this post says (two mirrored c's) but I don't understand what you mean by "independence days". We don't have one in France anyway.
"Countries with independence days" aka former colonies.
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#44This is unrelated to the main thesis of the article, but worth pointing out as too many people equate the Cyrillic script with Russian language. The Cyrillic script was invented in Bulgaria (during the First Bulgarian Empire), and was used to write Bulgarian language, creating a huge literary corpus, long before it began spreading to Kievan Rus. The Russian language itself comes from Old Bulgarian / Old Church Slavon…
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've learned to write x the way this post says (two mirrored c's) but I don't understand what you mean by "independence days". We don't have one in France anyway.
"Countries with independence days" aka former colonies.
Well I understood that much, but I'm not sure what link it could have with the shape of the x, especially since the English don't do it the same way as India.
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#46An italian influencer started speaking in italics/cursive. It's a silly thing, but the thought of pronouncing words differently because they are on bold or italics is interesting
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#47An italian influencer started speaking in italics/cursive. It's a silly thing, but the thought of pronouncing words differently because they are on bold or italics is interesting https://www.youtube.com/shorts/WLzDcJBfLOk
Victor Borge pronounced his punctuation marks. O:-)
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=victor+borge+punctuation&ia=videos...
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#48> Single-stroke letter t often appears on logos.
Somehow, this caption appears to the right of two logos which clearly require two strokes for their ts. What happened?
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
How do you write it; two separate diagonal bars like described in the article? In this case, how do you “flow” it within a word?
I write it with a descending curve, then go back and cross it with an ascending diagonal line when crossing t's / dotting i's/j's. Like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cel3GtSOzow . I think that's pretty standard in English cursives.
Interesting; French standard “x” is this one. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/NCr5KgIXd2Q
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#50For anyone interested in optimising this further, orthographic (letter-based) cursive shorthand systems are the answer. I personally only know part of the Melin system[1], but there are variants designed for English as the primary language too. (Melin is of course perfectly usable with English also.) The flow of a cursive shorthand system is unmatched by anything else. I highly recommend learning enougnh to experienc…
What a rabbithole ;) TIL about "Stiefography". I wonder how useful this is. I remember math lectures - typically, our prof used the white^H^H^H^H^Hchalkboard, so I could just write down things fast enough. There is evidence that typing is actively bad for memory rentention compared to writing things down with a pen. I wonder where Stenography falls in this continuum.
Depends on how it is used! Recording speech nearly verbatim is bad for retention; summarising in own words along the way is good for retention.
Longhand forces summarisation, but it's still possible with shorthand.