I mean scripts like Shavian or Quikscript. Are these script useful to you in your day-to-day life? How are they better than the original scripts of your language?

  • frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml
    9·
    3 months ago

    The writing system has its flaws too.

    • I and l look the same.
    • 0 and O look the same.
    • Why are their two totally different cases? Q looks nothing like q and the distinction serves no communicative purpose
    • Similarly, why is there printed letters and joined-up letters – two totally different ways of writing?
    • Loops are sometimes merely stylistic, but some letters like say b has a loop that is essential to it.
    • b and d are mirror-images, and this confuses some children
    • “dot your I-s and cross your T-s” – the pen has to be lifted from the page to do this, so people don’t always bother.

    Some of these might sound like non-issues to grown-ups, but they’re hard for children.

      • evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world
        1·
        3 months ago

        In my experience, “joined up” is the British English way of referring to the mostly informal way that people write “joining up” their letters. I don’t think it’s as formally structured and taught like it is (was?) in America, where pretty much every letter is different than in print.