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Maybe it's just me, but I'm having trouble seeing the "N"s in the images: https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/apps/YourNameInLandsat-main/public/images/n_0.jpg https

• xattt 2y ago
  Cursive lower-case n.
  • diggan 2y ago
    Oh, thanks. That's what I get for skipping cursive classes in school.
    • CoastalCoder 2y ago
      You could try to take the class again. Any guess what the class would be called? :)
      • diggan 2y ago
        Those were classes we had in primary school in Sweden more than 20 years ago, in "Lågstadiet" (Lower stage - mandatory school in English?), when we were like from 7 to 9 years old or something. Unlikely to even attempt to go back there :)
        • CoastalCoder 2y ago
          I completely respect your refusal to acknowledge my terrible pun :) I remember having to learn cursive on 2nd grade in the US, so I would have been about 8 at the time. Seems like a pretty obsolescent skill these days.
          • xattt 2y ago
            ! Having cursive under your belt helps you learn the rules, so you can break them later on as you develop a personal style. I’ve worked in roles where I had a lot of hand writing to do. If I used printing, it would take about three times as long than if I used my shorthand. Even taking notes in lectures, I could create notes by hand much faster than I could transcribe with a keyboard.
            • kccqzy 2y ago
              For some reason it never occurred to me that cursive is related to shorthand. I did self study cursive a little bit when in high school, but I simply recognized it as a way to write things that are more beautiful even though to modern eyes it might be more difficult to read. I did remember annoying a few teachers in high school when my work looked like the handwriting in https://mastodon.social/@waldoj/113082201727675702 https://mastodon.social/@waldoj/113082201727675702 and the teachers spent extra time understanding my writing. It never occurred to me that there is a shorthand to increase my own efficiency.
              • mananaysiempre 2y ago
                Side note: in the word “shorthand” itself, the “hand” is “handwriting; style of penmanship” (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hand#English https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hand#English meaning 10), cf. “round hand” etc.
              • toast0 2y ago
                > I did self study cursive a little bit when in high school, but I simply recognized it as a way to write things that are more beautiful even though to modern eyes it might be more difficult to read. That sounds more like calligraphy, IMHO. Many of the letter forms for some styles of cursive are similar to what happens if you write in block letters without lifting your pen. Depending on the particular style, there's some exceptions and embelleshments, but if you're taking a lot of notes in a hurry with a pen in block letters it kind of devolves into cursive naturally. Shorthand is generally phonetic, so that's a different skill, IMHO.
      • bahmboo 2y ago
        Recursive
      • tejtm 2y ago
        history