[B-Greek] Hand writing greek letters

Meridian Church of God meridianchurch at qwest.net
Tue Nov 25 02:29:23 EST 2003


To be honest, I really don't worry to much about that.  In my first year of
Greek, we learned some handwriting things to make it easier to write, but
that was about it.

I teach a first-year Greek class, and I have had students really try to get
there handwritten Greek to look like the print in the book, and I usually
try to direct them away from that.  After all, our English handwriting does
not usually look exactly like the printed English.  "a" is a case in point.
Greek is hard enough without having to focus on the various width of
letters.

It wasn't a stupid question - I have dealt with it more than once.

By the way - hello to all.  I am new to the list.  The topics have been very
interesting and it is neat to hear the different questions and answers.

Shawn

Pastor Shawn Ragan
Meridian Church of God
"Building Stronger Families"

shawn at meridianchurch.org
http://meridianchurch.org
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Blake T. Garretson" <blakeg at metalink.net>
To: <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 8:22 PM
Subject: [B-Greek] Hand writing greek letters


> This will probably sound just plain stupid, but here's my question:
>
> When I write greek letters by hand, I typically just use a normal pen.
> It never looks quite right though because the strokes are uniform in
> width.  Most printed greek looks like it has varying width strokes.
> (The "feet" of pi would be a good example.)  Has anybody ever tried
> using calligraphic or other types of pens that give this effect?
> Anynody have any experience with this?
>
> (I don't think this is off topic, but feel free to respond off list if
> you would prefer.)
>
> Thanks,
> Blake Garretson
> blakeg at metalink.net
>
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