Handwriting Challenge

[Prix with a Silent X]

I read a study about the density of information in spoken language that indicated that while there was some variation for complex concepts in some languages that most languages took approximately the same amount of time to express similar concepts, regardless of whether their words were long or short. I guess the idea is that if you have longer words for some concepts, it will require fewer of them to say the same thing. I'm not sure how universal this is, and I've heard that some languages use loan words from others because forming technical jargon in their own languages, while possible, isn't as practical as just using someone else's building blocks for it. I'm speaking in large generalizations because I find it interesting but don't want to do a lot of research at the moment.

But I guess getting back to the subject of handwriting, I wonder about the way character-based scripts look because I can imagine that it's a much steeper learning curve to learn how to do it in the first place. But then, maybe it just has to do with context and exposure in the first place.

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If you think reading bad English handwriting is hard wait until you see a chinese doctor.

Oh no.

Also, part of me still refuses to believe that cuneiform says anything.

[Arashi_Leonhart]

It also can hurt that character-based writing means you have to remember how the character goes, whereas at least the majority of people remember that an e is an e.

[SeiKeo]

Chinese already had a significant orthography reform to help with literacy. Unless you're Taiwan/HK. So there's that.

[Gl❀w]

Chinese friend also said it's not any harder to learn, and in fact she found our letters confusing and hard when she had to learn them after moving to the US. It's just based on what you're taught.

[Prix with a Silent X]

Apparently pre-lingual babies are born with the same very wide range of sounds that they can, hypothetically, make. Then, before they have ever acquired speech, the sounds they are able to make begin to limit and conform based on heard-speech of adults around them.

[mAc Chaos]

I asked my Chinese friend about this once. She said they have people with shitty handwriting just like us.

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Like, even in English, if you can make out two or three letters and contextualize it, you can make out what someone has written even if it's complete scribble to you. I imagine the same applies.

golw is croecct, as lnog as teh frsit adn lsat ltetrs in a snetcne are the smae, yuor barin cna uednasrtnd waht it manes

[SeiKeo]

It sounds like you're trying to sound like a fucked up Scotsman.

[mAc Chaos]

ill bash ur head in i swear on me mum

[Gl❀w]

ill bash ur fookin head in

Ftfy

[Mooncake]

I agree with this song choice. Did you watch Jojo?

Of course!

[Seika]

Excuse potato webcam. Excuse terrible handwriting.

[SeiKeo]

Oh please ​that's fine

[Strife ❤️]

Although it's about one of the only acceptable things in the picture

[Seika]

I regret nothing.

[Gl❀w]

I can't read seika's cursive

[SeiKeo]

polysyndeton

[Seika]

polysyndeton

I decided it was an appropriate word for cursive.

[Arashi_Leonhart]

I like how not only can people not decide whether it should be table of elements or mythological elements, but within mythological elements we have people doing Greek, Chinese, and Japanese.

[Prix with a Silent X]

Excuse potato webcam. Excuse terrible handwriting.

You need not be excused. I am very glad you participated.

I like how not only can people not decide whether it should be table of elements or mythological elements, but within mythological elements we have people doing Greek, Chinese, and Japanese.

This is really interesting and surprising to me. I kind of assumed MOST people would go with mythological elements from Type Moon, but that is not what happened at all.

[You]

This is really interesting and surprising to me. I kind of assumed MOST people would go with mythological elements from Type Moon, but that is not what happened at all.

no one wrote dog tho.