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洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee)

@pavsmith No, in handwriting, it's not that important. It's like the difference between an a and an ɑ, or the difference between crossing out a 7 or not, but in print, people feel awkward.

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Paul McO'Smith III

@hongminhee thanks. had always kinda wondered, as most of what i see is really detailed calligraphy, which can't be practical when writing notes in a meeting!

i suspect the problem like right handers trying to decipher left handed writing, especially when writing at speed and you start to smudge all of the ink!

洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee)

@pavsmith Of course, there's cursive script in East Asia too. Also, each single Chinese character is more like a word than a single letter, so the information density of a sentence is high (hence a sentence is short).

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cursive_

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