Old Man Posted January 28, 2019 Report Share Posted January 28, 2019 1 hour ago, Badger said: Crossing zeros? Now that is just savagery, there. I do that, again when differentiating from text in serial numbers. I hear you about the bad eyesight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted January 28, 2019 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2019 In the military, we also do bar Z to differentiate from 2. Serial numbers are the cause of all strange looking numbers and letters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoloOfEarth Posted January 28, 2019 Report Share Posted January 28, 2019 On 1/25/2019 at 2:19 PM, Old Man said: People still write cursive? A brief aside -- I put together a time capsule in 1999, to pass onto my kids, and then their kids, etc. until it's to be opened in 2101. (So it goes from the 20th century to the 22nd century.) One of the things it includes is a journal with stories of how I met my wife, about my kids' births, etc. And then I realized that since I wrote it in cursive, it's entirely possible they wouldn't be able to decode what I'd written. So I included a page where I listed each letter in cursive (upper and lower case) along with that letter in block form. My great-great-grandkids will probably think I'm an idiot, but what the heck. Better safe than sorry. pinecone and Old Man 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted January 28, 2019 Report Share Posted January 28, 2019 Maybe they'll think you wrote in some super cool creative code. But, then, you'll be dead so it wont matter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 28, 2019 Report Share Posted January 28, 2019 I should brush up on my old German script and use that again. If I make a big concrete tablet with inscriptions in that font, maybe it'll turn into the next Linear Elamite or something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted January 29, 2019 Report Share Posted January 29, 2019 On 1/28/2019 at 1:59 AM, Starlord said: In the military, we also do bar Z to differentiate from 2. Serial numbers are the cause of all strange looking numbers and letters. I do the same thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Posted January 29, 2019 Report Share Posted January 29, 2019 17 hours ago, BoloOfEarth said: A brief aside -- I put together a time capsule in 1999, to pass onto my kids, and then their kids, etc. until it's to be opened in 2101. (So it goes from the 20th century to the 22nd century.) One of the things it includes is a journal with stories of how I met my wife, about my kids' births, etc. And then I realized that since I wrote it in cursive, it's entirely possible they wouldn't be able to decode what I'd written. So I included a page where I listed each letter in cursive (upper and lower case) along with that letter in block form. My great-great-grandkids will probably think I'm an idiot, but what the heck. Better safe than sorry. So the guy whose Avatar looks like a Egyptian Pharao, gave his grandchildren a helper for his Hieroglyphs? Fitting BoloOfEarth 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted January 29, 2019 Report Share Posted January 29, 2019 Yeah, no real trouble differentiating my Zs and 2s. My 2s have that little curl at the bottom corner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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