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Well, I learned cursive and I can't even read most cursive text. Actually made me think about Chinese characters. From what I know, nowadays people use simplif
by michaelsalim 4y ago
Well, I learned cursive and I can't even read most cursive text.
Actually made me think about Chinese characters. From what I know, nowadays people use simplified Chinese characters instead of the traditional ones.
I don't know Chinese but I'd imagine the traditional version to be in a similar position to cursive.
- Normille 4y agoWell, I learned cursive and I can't even read most cursive text.. Ditto. Anyone who's ever dabbled in genealogy will have come across this fundamental flaw with cursive handwriting. It can be lovely to look at. But also very ambiguous to interpret. Trying to decipher old birth or death certificates often involves trying to guess what they say. Was Great-Grandad a butler, a builder, a butcher, a banker, a baker... or a burglar? Often, only the first and maybe a middle letter are identifiable for certain and the rest are just insert squiggle which could be almost anything. I've long been amazed that, even on such important documents of historical record, clerks were expected to fill in details in cursive, rather than printing each individual letter.
- simonblack 4y agoWe have turned full circle. We are introducing modern pictograms ("emojis") to convey very concentrated meaning instead of spelling it out with several words. Eventually those pictograms/emojis will become stylised due to speed with most of the strokes removed and we will end up with a kind of stylised writing which would probably be quite similar in effect to modern Chinese. Computer people have used :) for a long time.