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WCDT: 2286-90 (1-5 October 2012) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Akima:
--- Quote from: Carl-E on 03 Oct 2012, 01:18 ---I guess cursive really is dieing... Where's the line for reading this easily? 25? 30? 42?
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Emily's handwriting is better than mine. I had no problems with reading it, except for the G at the beginning of Games, which I got from the context. I am bad at cursive capital letters, and I confess that I print the initial letter of capitalised words, and write the rest cursively. English is way easier to read than cursive Chinese. See below the word cǎoshū ("grass script" or cursive writing) which is written once in standard Traditional Characters and once in cursive:
Is cursive really dying? Even if you type your homework, what do you use to answer essay-questions in exams? Block printing? I suppose there might be people who can print faster than they can write cursively, but it certainly is not true for me. Sheer speed is the main advantage of cursive I think, though that might explain why my handwriting is ugly...
cesariojpn:
--- Quote from: Carl-E on 03 Oct 2012, 00:17 ---As the central character, inviting all his friends becomes a grand excuse to get the whole cast together at once...
I'm hoping Steve shows up. And maybe the band can play their first gig...
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Jeph is gonna have a mental breakdown if he has to include every single friend from Marten's background that theoretically could make it (aside from the folks on the Station and perhaps Padma).
cesariojpn:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 03 Oct 2012, 01:54 ---I separated out the letters for you:
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Now that you did it that way......It looks like Ayuma, which if IIRC, means Foolish or Stupid Girl in Japanese.
Sorflakne:
The last time I had to write cursive beyond my signature was when I took the GRE, where you have to copy a statement of understanding in cursive. When I heard that instruction, I just looked at the lady handling my registration forms and said, "Um, I haven't written cursive in years...can't I just print it?" But no, the requirement stood. It took me almost five minutes to write four or five sentences.
The last time I wrote cursive regularly was in 5th grade...so that SoU came out...barely readable.
dr. nervioso:
Looking at you all trying to read cursive is funny. I can read cursive very well actually, and I write in it sometimes
But that's because cursive is just so much more fancy than regular print
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