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They're surprisingly silly. English developed completely separately from Japanese/Asia, so this teacher is pulling line-directions and rules out of her ass. The
by ver_ture 6y ago
They're surprisingly silly. English developed completely separately from Japanese/Asia, so this teacher is pulling line-directions and rules out of her ass. There are no such conventions for the alphabet. Her poor students and their hand cramps, out there writing in courier.
- bradly 6y agoStroke order is an important part of writing in Japanese culture, with conventions. They aren't random. It is reasonable to a come up with a similar stroke ordering system for learning other languages in Japan. Calling them silly and pulled out of her ass is dismissive to the Japanese culture, the teacher, or the students.
- ver_ture 6y agoCreating this Japanese overlay of rules for English writing is disingenuous. The students might be in for a minor shellshock outside of her class. I respect the conventions they have for writing in Japanese, it's perfectly tailored to using a brush. The teacher should respect English conventions, the free-form, the cursive, either one.
- bradly 6y ago> it's perfectly tailored to using a brush. It isn't just using a brush; even with a pen and paper simple hiragana is easier when using proper stroke order. > The teacher should respect English conventions The teacher is following Japanese culture conventions to teach people of the Japanese culture a different language. People unfamiliar with the culture or the teacher should respect that.
- kps 6y agoThe Latin alphabet does have historical developmental stroke directions, not by rules but by what's natural and possible using the historical Euro writing tool — a broad-cut reed or quill pen. In this sense the Japanese stroke order for Latin letters is wrong; you can't push a reed pen to write an ‘O’ that way.
- stock_toaster 6y agoYeah, the "O" stood out to me as objectively wrong as well.