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While I have seen people write "a" like in print, I've never seen anyone write a "g" with two loops/storeys.
by theandrewbailey 5y ago
While I have seen people write "a" like in print, I've never seen anyone write a "g" with two loops/storeys.
- BugsJustFindMe 5y ago> I've never seen anyone write a "g" with two loops/storeys Cursive g has two loops.
- ksaj 5y agoHave you seen anyone print the g with the backward loop, like the way it shows up on a typewriter, and the HN text input boxes?
- gerikson 5y agoThe two 'g's are double-storey and single-storey (looptail/opentail): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G#Typographic_variants https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G#Typographic_variants FWIW the 'g's in my input box here are single-storey.
- ksaj 5y agoMine shows the double-story circular loop in the input box, but the single-story opentail after clicking <reply>. Having said that, you prompted me to search for "double-story a" and sure enough, it's the same thing as with the g.
- jordan314 5y agoI do. But I did it on purpose, also switched my 'a's to look typewritten, I did it when I was handwriting my college essays.
- thaumasiotes 5y agoI've always written "a", just because I think the other style is ugly. I have a Christmas stocking which I insisted, long ago, on having embroidered with the same style of "a". I tried once to write "g" with loop below as commonly printed, but I couldn't make it look decent.
- Doxin 5y agoDoes the G in this picture count[0]? Because that's how most people in my country would write a G when writing cursive. [0] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3f/Schoonschrift.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3f/Schoonsc...
- jdfellow 5y agoIt's admittedly a bad habit of mine, but I write lowercase "g" like a numeral "8", only translated downward a little. It has two loops, and gets the point across (when I know it's only myself who will read my scrawl.)
- remedan 5y agoI write it that way. Here is a sample of my handwriting: https://i.imgur.com/QgYpgIf.jpg https://i.imgur.com/QgYpgIf.jpg As a kid, I was influenced by the font used in the Neverhood to adopt this style. :) At some point I even wrote lower case 'a's like in print. That didn't stick, but the 'g's did for whatever reason. Neverhood example: https://i.imgur.com/kjrHpsr.gif https://i.imgur.com/kjrHpsr.gif
- Talanes 5y agoThe g in dog is interesting, because while it's clearly a g in context, it would definitely read as an 8 in a vacuum.
- Wildgoose 5y agoI write my lower-case 'g' with a loop like this, although I have only ever met one other person who also does so.
- anfilt 5y agoCursive, it's easier to write the g with two loops in cursive.