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I just had an idea
If this site's users were playing like an rpg sort kind of game made my this event, my avi would be unbeatable because my avi would fight using cursive, and not many people these days know how to read such beautiful font (I have a hard time reading certain fonts myself, but I still love it). My avi's special ability would make the action boxes' texts be cursive as well! Of course, there would be an easy way to beat it... which would be to memorise where your commands/spells are, unless you don't have a healing spell, then you're out of luck.
Ah, if only it could come to pass. :p-evil: I have gotten in the mood to make games, but I lack the knowledge, skills, and resources to do such things. |
i'm pretty much a ghost pokemon, i lick you to paralyze you with fear, then i strike!
usually by picking with my big ol' heels. |
Oh, but I can read cursive! And what's more, I shall counter your beautiful cursive with my bad cursive! Irregular letters and sizing, mistakenly crossed L's, and accidental pen lifts! HAHAHAHA!
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Me too, but I didn't start writing in cursive until maybe high school.
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I also learned cursive in school and I still use it frequently.
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me too i also know cursive ouo
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Just because I read it slower than normal text doesn't mean I can't read it. >.>
Also I do have an RPG for the site back-burnered. |
Well, there goes me! I'd be the first boss then since it seems some of you can read cursive.
Coda, are you going to work on that rpg? I'm curious about it. |
The RPG is mostly in the design phase still. There's some implementation on the crazy clever hack part written (infinite parallel dimensions, each with a unique world map) but I haven't touched it in a long time because we decided to do some less absurdly ambitious games first. The first phase of the most ambitious of the less-ambitious games will be launched this summer if all goes according to plan.
I've heard the idea described as a cross between Myst and .hack//Infection. |
I see. Well, I'm excited to play both games now... I wish I lived alone so I can let out m excitement.
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Ugh, I've been wanting to get Myst for ages.
Also, I too can read cursive. And write it, though I'd rather use my calligraphy pen and dole out some Fraktur. |
Even though I can read script if it has context and is clear (computer font), I can't read messy script because the letters are weird to me. The fact that a capital G looks so much like a D gets me every time >_>
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^That's a G, and to a person who doesn't look at script much (me), it looks a whole lot like a "D." Maybe not a "D" in script, but similar to a D in not-script (at least a lot more similar to a D than a G) |
I keep reading cursive Q's as 2's.
And depending on the handwriting style, sometimes F's as 7's. |
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I get better at reading specific cursive styles the more I look at them. I'm terrible with my dad's, but I can read my mother's terrible handwriting and my stepmother's as well, just from exposure. I'm trying to copy an old journal in the family that's written in cursive and it's awkward when I put it down for a while because I need to re-learn the writer's habits. For instance, her k strokes are far enough apart to look like two letters, and her t crosses are usually the length of the whole word, often missing the actual letter. My mother's l's always looked like h's because she has a bumped line at the bottom. My own hands tremble at times so my writing is all over the place. |
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Oh, another thing, I forgot some people have cursive that looks like the owner of the journal that wrote in the journal... how old is the journal? |
My cursive is... kinda bad. I can read it because I learned how to do it as a kid, and it's what most of my teachers preferred to read. I kinda don't get how you could mistake a "G" for a "D", but that may just be me not really seeing things right.
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Let's be pen pal'?
Anyways, yeah, I prefer to read cursive... if I were patient with children, I'd be an elementary school teacher to teach cursive, and once I taught them cursive, no printing allowed... well, maybe not, but I do want to see more cursive. |
I learned the word "Disney" before seeing the script so nah. It takes me a split second to realize if something's "D" or "G" when reading it, and I occasionally mess up when writing them. I think I focus too much on the curvy side of the "G" instead of the bendy bit at the top and that's why I forget what's what.
My favorite letter is lowercase f xD |
Hmm... maybe I can use dances to but ghosts to sleep and then try getting them to hurt themselves. That'd be good for me.
My favourite letter is capital D. |
Yes, Fraktur's the written font, but the written font is sharp and pointy. -brain is weird-
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I'm copying it again since the writing is beginning to fade. My older sister actually made the suggestion recently that I type the thing out. That...would actually be a good idea so that I'll have a copy that is easy to distribute and I'll continue the hand-written one later. The journal is famous enough to be found online, transcribed in some places. I'm curious to compare my transcription of it to the ones I can see already done. It did sit in a museum in New Brunswick for a time, but my grandmother wouldn't renew the lease when she and her family moved out west here. |
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-remembers her days in elementary school- QnQ my hand writing is so bad my teachers would make me redo some things because of it, and we HAD to use cursive all the time...
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I had to write all of my papers in cursive in 5th grade. That was awful. Fortunately I wasn't graded on my penmanship.
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When I was in elementary school, the teachers couldn't really care less if we learned script or not. I'm pretty sure we copied first all the letters not in script (what is that called?) then later only copied half the letters for script.
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To be fair, I'm twice your age (plus or minus a few months if I'm not mistaken). Penmanship used to be a standard school subject.
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And these days schools hardly care about penmenship :D!
Actually, I'm constantly amazed at how teachers can read my handwriting when I can't. |
Hmm... come to think of it, my school wasn't to concerned over penmanship either.
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my teachers always took issue with my penmanship, and we never had to write cursive for our work outside of when we initially learned it.
i don't have any particular issues reading cursive, other than capital letters trip me up sometimes. no idea why, but they never clicked with me very well. i use print capitals and cursive everything else sometimes, like with signing my name. |
I get that sort of half-print, half-cursive thing going if I'm writing in a hurry.
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As for the capital letters, the Q looks like a 2, the G looks like an M, the E is a backwards 3, the T looks like an F without a line and vice versa with a line, so those ones I can understand. Quote:
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We didn't get judged THAT harshly on the slant, but we did have to slant -- and we had to slant our print too before that, in preparation for learning cursive. My cursive is hard enough to read when it's upright. Having to slant it makes it worse. Thankfully, after 3rd grade, my papers just had to be written in cursive, they didn't have to be written in that specific TYPE of cursive, so it was all upright from there on.
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Coda... I wanna see your cursive writing.
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I... can probably accommodate that request later.
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