The number 7... - Page 2

Dauphin · November 27, 2003, 18:32

I wish I had a scanner to show you what neat handwriting can look like.

I am the neatest writer most people I know, know.

Gangerolf · November 27, 2003, 18:39

Quote:

Originally posted by Zopperoni

There is nothing wrong with my "8".

yes there is.

you should learn from skywalker

Gangerolf · November 27, 2003, 18:41

skywalker, you put a bar through your 1s?? Doesn't that just confuse people? I mean it looks like a 7 w/bar

Pekka · November 27, 2003, 18:46

Gangerolf, Exactly.. he does two circles, not 8, like it's supposed to be done.. the funny part is where he goes to deny about it

Immortal Wombat · November 27, 2003, 18:46

Whether the bar is there depends whether the last 7 I read has a bar or not. I've very suggestable evidently.

Unless I'm doing maths, then I go with BC's method

Quote:

I put the bar through my 7.
I put a bar through my z.
I put a loop in the base of my 2.
I write my x like a two c's back to back.

Immortal Wombat · November 27, 2003, 18:47

PS: Zopper's 8 is really cool.

Buck Birdseed · November 27, 2003, 18:59

It's his q I'm worried about.

Am I the only person to put a bar in my q BTW?

Pekka · November 27, 2003, 19:01

Buck, you put bar in your q? You basically make it the sign of feminine? Good luck with that.. My letters have masculinity in it and power.

Gangerolf · November 27, 2003, 19:03

I put a bar in my q too. feminine? pffftt

Nubclear · November 27, 2003, 19:16

Kropotkin · November 27, 2003, 19:17

When I started school here in Sweden, the social democratic regime had enforced a new standard of writing that all pupils had to follow in good stalinistic order. Due to my rebellious nature I've done all I can after my first years of forced indoctrination to not follow this code. A seven with a bar is one of the ways I'm keeping up this life long struggle. I also write capital A's like U's upside down with a bar and 1's with a line under, like this 1. These things I picked up as a army signaleer and now I'm using it in my war against sanity and order.

Zopperoni · November 27, 2003, 19:24

Quote:

Originally posted by Pekka
Gangerolf, Exactly.. he does two circles, not 8, like it's supposed to be done.. the funny part is where he goes to deny about it

Two circles?

There is no "way it is supposed to be done".

Quote:

Originally posted by Immortal Wombat
PS: Zopper's 8 is really cool.

Cheers

Pekka · November 27, 2003, 19:27

Yes there is. Well you could say this is number eight then: #"¤/ ... but it isn't. This is number eight: 8. Simple. It's not two circles. Listen, you can invent your own numbers and letters, but you'll be in a world of trouble when you have to let's say write down your phonenumber for someone.. then they go like 'what is this number, I have never seen this.. circles.. I don't get it', and they'll never get back to you, for example to pay back that $5000 they just borrowed from you.

Zopperoni · November 27, 2003, 19:28

You recognized it as an eight, didn't you? What's your farking problem?

Pekka · November 27, 2003, 19:32

I did.. but some might not be able to do that.. Oh come on, I'm only pulling your leg and I'm tired

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Zopperoni · November 27, 2003, 19:34

I know you are, but the fact is that that "8" wasn't invented by me. It's the way we (over here) are taught to write one.

Pekka · November 27, 2003, 19:35

I read that last sentence 10 times, and I still can't figure it out

Zopperoni · November 27, 2003, 19:36

Try again =)

Pekka · November 27, 2003, 19:43

It's ok. It's not like I hold it against you.

self biased · November 27, 2003, 20:04

i don't normally use the bar, though i often put the serif on my 't.'

Dauphin · November 27, 2003, 22:01

I'm just looking at my 4 at the moment. It looks like a cactus throwing a javelin.

I'm not insane, just got a vivid imagination.

Dauphin · November 27, 2003, 22:05

I don't have a scanner but this is pretty close to the mark of my handwritten 4.

Skanky Burns · November 28, 2003, 03:32

My vote is with insane.

Snotty · November 28, 2003, 03:52

Ariba ariba, its a posse of javalin throwing cactus!

Enigma_Nova · November 28, 2003, 04:04

Quote:

Originally posted by st_swithin
Hey, the Chinese 7 looks like an inverted Roman 7

VII == Roman 7. (Kindly hands st_swithin the funny quote award)

Ben Kenobi · November 28, 2003, 06:07

7with a bar. My handwriting is not bad, but only if I take my time.

November 28, 2003, 12:43

I dont put the bar in 7 but to make it easier to distinguish from the 1, the one in just a simple vertical line.
This is also pretty minimalist in terms of how quick it allows me to write numbers.

Kuciwalker · November 28, 2003, 12:55

Quote:

Originally posted by Gangerolf
skywalker, you put a bar through your 1s?? Doesn't that just confuse people? I mean it looks like a 7 w/bar

I put a bar at the bottom of my 1's, like the computer. This is two distinguish them from lower-case L's. It's just that when I write quickly the bar isn't at the VERY bottom.

Kuciwalker · November 28, 2003, 12:59

I am personally proud of my t's

. I write them fast enough that my pen ends up staying on the paper the entire time. They are essentially my and's upside down.