On 10/02/2014 09:57 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Sep 22, 2014, at 10:16 PM, Orange Paranoid <anorangeparanoid@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> I need a regular font resembling how a human being writes in the real >> world. Beginners learning the English language need such a font. > > Children learning languages that use roman characters learn simple capital block letters first. Then lower case. Then some rules about upper and lower case. Then handwriting such as cursive (joined-up writing) is learned. Anything handwritten in the "real world" will be both block and cursive, so they have to learn how to read both. > /snip/ I heard the other day that some schools no longer teach "handwriting" --the cursive stuff that most people used to write, and which very often became pretty ratty-looking. I guess the feeling is that all the kids now have texting devices and will not see or need to use anything except typescript lettering. I suppose that's normal progress. Have you ever tried to read the blackletter output of the fourteenth century scribes? Even if your Latin is pretty good, the blackletter is nearly incomprehensible. --doug -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
