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[rmd]

[Poll #1340512]

poll inspired by this article in the globe about the death of cursive writing. NB: back in 2006, 85% of kids taking the SAT wrote in block letters.

Comments

[feste-sylvain.livejournal.com]

When I write by hand, and I don't want people to see my private notes, I will write in a block-style modification of the "Interlac" font that Keith Giffen developed for the comic book Legion of Super-Heroes back in the mid-1980s. I've had people mistake it for Japanese and Hebrew.

[rmd.livejournal.com]

...

this is the nerdiest thing i have read all week. possibly all month.

[smeehrrr.livejournal.com]

For people for whom Klingon and Quenya are just too mundane.

[jbsegal.livejournal.com]

I want to see this!

[ceo]

I need to introduce you to my former coworker Joe, who besides being a fine software engineer is also an organist and calligrapher. I once saw him writing in some alphabet I didn't recognize, which he described as "a calligraphic shorthand I came up with". He wrote me a note after I got laid off, that I'm tempted to frame.

[solarbird]

I've done typesetting design work in Steve Gallacci's "Standard" from the ALBEDO universe. For a while, I even had it on my business card. But I never wrote with it by hand. Damn.