I think it's proof that the human mind is adaptable and can deal with "close enough". Literally no one pens the letter G this way. It's only seen in print.
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Funny, I literally pen the letter g in that way and have been doing so since I was a kid.
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The difference between the cursive/print and the typewritten (mechanical or electronic) lowercase "g" could almost be enough to explain this disparity of indentification. No one "writes" (cursive or print) a lower case "g" with a right-facing loop. it looks silly!
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The hand gestures to draw that is super unnatural, at least for right-hand writers. I wonder if lefties have a different experience and find it easier to write.
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the cursive "g" is deliberately not unnatural to write, which is why it is written in the opposite direction (loop connects on the right, open to the left) than the mechanic/electronic typographic form. Writing is awkward for left-handers, as it was developed for right-handers.
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“The devils in the G-tails”
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I can draw the fancy g from memory, much like the Stussy S of my long-passed middle school days, but writing it in a word just feels so unnatural.
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There are actually at 3 forms of the lower case letter "g": the open descender form is both written and mechanically/electronically drawn. The looped descender has an almost exclusively written form, the cursive "g" which faces LEFT; and a mech/elect loop form which faces RIGHT!
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A similar point could be made for lower case A. I understand the two versions originate from the Latin and Greek alphabets.
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In fact, the research looked at “a” as well and found that it was *far* less problematic. (This was explicit in a another article.)
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Thanks for chasing that up.
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Seriously, they did a study on this? This is a case of people not memorizing a particular font that is easy to recognize in context. It is not the way people learn to write it so it’s hard to replicate.
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My Pattern Recognition model of Intelligence predicted refutation of the 2nd law. https://www.linkedin.com/post/edit/refuting-2nd-law-thermodynamics-mark-martens …
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