On 10/02/2014 09:57 AM, Chris Murphy wrote:
On Sep 22, 2014, at 10:16 PM, Orange Paranoid <anorangeparanoid(a)gmail.com> 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