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cstrother and RoyalKooparillo, I have to congratulate you. That is quite possibly the most delightfully arcane discussion I have seen in a long time! 
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cstrother and RoyalKooparillo, I have to congratulate you. That is quite possibly the most delightfully arcane discussion I have seen in a long time!
Thanks, although I am as usual something of a poser here, unlike RoyalKooparillo. The guy that turned me onto straights--Mitch M, I guess I should not use full real names here! Mitch, if you are out there you are still my Guru and my hero!--also tried to turn me onto Spencerian script and I feel bad about not keeping with it better than I did.
I think the whole saga of the Penmen is fascinating. It was a part of American culture I surely knew nothing about. And even know I find it very hard to sort out what was really going on. I think folks trained for years in this stuff as a business skill, particularly folks like train conductors and telepgraph operators. And like RoyalKooparillo says, I think the idea was something fast and legible, but it always seem to have the component of simply beautiful and rather ornate stuff, too.
cstrother and RoyalKooparillo, I have to congratulate you. That is quite possibly the most delightfully arcane discussion I have seen in a long time!
Haha well, no topic is too obscure for B&Brs!
Except that one, of course...
isn't this overrated? I have tried typing and writing in the last few weeks after surgery and no one can really tell what my handwriting says but they seem to figure it out eventually : )
