Posts Tagged: Orthography
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Nobody Writes Good Anymore

"With stars ages 30 and above, they generally have a much more full, legible signature. When you deal with these new people like [teen actress] Elle Fanning, you're lucky if you get an E and F and a heart for her signature." —Is handwriting dead? Sure, why the hell not.

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The Moving Finger Lies, And Having Lied, Moves On

Can your handwriting reveal deliberate falsehoods? "Researchers at Israel's Haifa University worked with 34 volunteers, who wrote truthful and false paragraphs on paper using a wireless electronic pen and a pressure sensitive tip. A computerized system measured pressure and stroke duration, both on the paper and in the air. Spatial measures, such as stroke length, height and width were also tracked. And the scientists found significant differences in pressure and spatial measures in deceptive statements compared with the truth." Insert your own "pretty much anyone who has ever written anything" joke here.