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FunkyAl posted:Hey, Mort didn't used to be this bad at drawing! When did we see him draw before?
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Regy Rusty posted:When did we see him draw before? Here http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=304
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Mar 23, 2013 00:09
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I'm 98% sure those exact same ghosts were in a joke book I had as a kid. I mean in the same poses and everything. Mort's been tracing 
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Mar 23, 2013 04:05
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Oh of course that was the exact same page that was linked before to show when Annie and Kat last drew something. 
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Mar 23, 2013 12:31
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I prefer Mort's old comic. Not because of the joke, but because of the subtle nod to his origins. The cursive script he uses is one that a English schoolboy in the early 1900s would have been taught, say at about the age of 16 or so Arianya fucked around with this message at 15:17 on Mar 23, 2013 |
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Mar 23, 2013 15:11
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Conot posted:I prefer Mort's old comic. Not because of the joke, but because of the subtle nod to his origins. Man, it's the cursive script I was taught in school, age seven.
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Mar 23, 2013 16:09
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MikeJF posted:Man, it's the cursive script I was taught in school, age seven.  But yeah, I was taught to write this way too, at six.
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Mar 23, 2013 16:56
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Cyphoderus posted:Why would you put that in spoiler tags? Unless... you are Mort Yeah well you could be a hundred years old.
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Mar 23, 2013 20:24
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Conot posted:I prefer Mort's old comic. Not because of the joke, but because of the subtle nod to his origins. Doesn't everyone learn how to write like that? Speaking as a 24 year old British person.
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Yeah it's how I was taught to write. I then had to unlearn it because my penmanship is atrocious and un-joined-up writing is the only way anyone can read my handwriting
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Mar 24, 2013 02:02
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I was taught cursive in 3rd grade and then it was promptly never used or mentioned again. At least where I'm from (Washington State) no one uses cursive for anything but signatures.
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Mar 24, 2013 02:06
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Prison Warden posted:Yeah it's how I was taught to write. I then had to unlearn it because my penmanship is atrocious and un-joined-up writing is the only way anyone can read my handwriting Yeah I mostly write in print now (unless I'm just scribbling notes for myself) but I wrote joined-up through the whole of school.
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Mar 24, 2013 02:19
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GodFish posted:I was taught cursive in 3rd grade and then it was promptly never used or mentioned again. At least where I'm from (Washington State) no one uses cursive for anything but signatures. 3rd grade onward: "Just use print. It's way more legible and nobody uses cursive."
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Mar 24, 2013 02:23
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Elysiume posted:2nd grade: "You need to learn cursive, all adults use cursive." It's a nice thing to know how to read and the best way to teach it is to make kids learn how to write it. They're phasing out teaching it though.
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Mar 24, 2013 02:25
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Yet another unknown difference between us and the yanks revealed.
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Mar 24, 2013 02:26
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Elysiume posted:2nd grade: "You need to learn cursive, all adults use cursive." Word for word my teachers.
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Mar 24, 2013 02:26
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Elysiume posted:2nd grade: "You need to learn cursive, all adults use cursive." I use cursive sometimes still, it's like having my own secret code.
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a pipe smoking dog posted:Yet another unknown difference between us and the yanks revealed. I'm in the US and they gave us the same spiel. "College teachers won't even accept your papers if you don't write in cursive!" they said.
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GodFish posted:I was taught cursive in 3rd grade and then it was promptly never used or mentioned again. At least where I'm from (Washington State) no one uses cursive for anything but signatures. Elysiume posted:2nd grade: "You need to learn cursive, all adults use cursive." The little bit of Russian I audited in college taught me that Russian handwriting is some whacked out poo poo though. "d" looks like a cursive English "g," "g" is some squiggle, "t" looks like a cursive "m" and so on. If I remember the what the prof said correctly, they don't use print except for stuff made on printing presses or computers or whatever, all the handwriting is done in cursive.
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Parts Kit posted:Lucky you. I had random teachers from 4th grade through 12th that would get pissy if you didn't use cursive. I think the worst one actually refused to grade anything in print and would just give you a zero. Of course once I got into college no one gave a poo poo. How does that even work? There's a pretty messy squiggly line between cursive and print.
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I went to a private school, and they made me use cursive from third grade or so (don't remember exactly). Wouldn't accept anything not in cursive, and eventually I just started writing solely in it unless asked otherwise. When I went to high school everyone used print and my teachers were baffled by my always writing in cursive. Over time I started writing in print by default again. (No matter what I wrote in my handwriting was, and is, atrocious, though.)
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Mar 24, 2013 06:08
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I still practice my cursive regularly. (Not a great example of my handwriting, but it's a pretty green ink). Mort's drawing has probably gone downhill because he's still not used ot these modern ball-points.
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Mar 24, 2013 08:36
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:Mort's drawing has probably gone downhill because he's still not used ot these modern ball-points. Exactly. He's a bit disoriented because now he has to work with a different Medium. 
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Cat Mattress posted:Exactly. He's a bit disoriented because now he has to work with a different Medium.
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:I still practice my cursive regularly. (Not a great example of my handwriting, but it's a pretty green ink). A...a fellow calligraphy aficionado? Oh my..  Zemyla posted:Booooo! Totally better than Mort's jokes this time around 
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Mar 24, 2013 11:57
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I know this may be somewhat blasphemous, but regarding the whole Reynard targeting Annie thing... Maybe Tom made a narrative decision at the time which doesn't reflect where he ultimately decided to take the character? Not everything it set it stone when you start writing, you know.
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Mar 24, 2013 13:08
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He'd still need to, like, deal with it at some point rather than simply leave it there and pretend it never happened. And while she mostly ignores it Antimony's made clear she recalls the whole 'trying to kill her' bit before and that it's still hanging over their relationship.
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runwiled posted:I know this may be somewhat blasphemous, but regarding the whole Reynard targeting Annie thing... It's possible, but I think it's a big enough plot point that there's a good chance it was in the first draft. Drafts and plots do change over time and webcomics in particular have stories that are released slowly compared to a novel. It's not my first guess, but it's rare I can figure out what Tom's doing more than 3 pages in advance.
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I think cursive has been phased out not so much as "block writing is better/legible" but "all business and professional documents are typed on computers anyway now". The US education system has just completely failed to adapt. Remember kiddies, 20 years ago not everyone even HAD a home computer! Or even a typewriter! Cowcaster fucked around with this message at 22:58 on Mar 24, 2013 |
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Mar 24, 2013 22:55
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I still hand-write a bunch of stuff because I like to despite using computers for at least twenty-five years (I'm 30). Fortunately my cursive is pretty drat legible.
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Mar 25, 2013 03:49
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I swear this has been the most adorable "break" Tom's done so far.
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Mar 25, 2013 08:03
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Tollymain posted:I swear this has been the most adorable "break" Tom's done so far. I dunno, something about this update is making me feel crabby.
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Mar 25, 2013 08:08
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Tunicate posted:I dunno, something about this update is making me feel crabby. Stop being so shellfish.
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Mar 25, 2013 08:32
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Lets all clam down, we wouldn't want anyone to make anemones over such a small update.
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Mar 25, 2013 08:36
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Stop it. Stop all this nonsense.
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Mar 25, 2013 08:44
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The fish puns had me thinking I'd wandered into the Homestuck thread by mistake.
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Yup, those puns were fishy alright, but no need to whale on the thread. Anyway, regarding using cursive writing, that pretty much standard here in France. You pretty much only ever use print when you learn to write and cursive is deemed too difficult.
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This has been my favorite intermission so far. I got taught cursive in third grade. I have never used it past that.
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Those puns made me want to krill myself.
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Let me just preempt all of this fish pun nonsense:Kip Addotta posted:It was April the forty-first There. Done. That covers all the fish puns.
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