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🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Mar-2024 21:14:19 JST 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

What is the name for a person (me) who gets all his pens sent to a special pen "smith" who customizes and grinds down the tip to make it soft and flexible for spencarian writing...
I feel like "nerd" doesnt quite fit.. its something on another level and I dont know what to call it.

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  IMPROVE PEOPLE _NOT JUST TECH_ (freeschool@qoto.org)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Mar-2024 21:19:06 JST IMPROVE PEOPLE _NOT JUST TECH_
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  @freemo You're a Spencarian Specialist :)
  A bit of a mouthful but perfect for announcing out loud as your title or sub-specialism! Try saying it now out loud! " I'm a.... "
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spencerian_script
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    Spencerian script
    
    Spencerian script is a script style based on Copperplate script that was used in the United States from approximately 1850 to 1925, and was considered the American de facto standard writing style for business correspondence prior to the widespread adoption of the typewriter. Spencerian script, an American form of cursive handwriting, was also widely integrated into the school system as an instructional method until the "simpler" Palmer Method replaced it. President James A. Garfield called the Spencerian script, "the pride of our country and the model of our schools." History Platt Rogers Spencer, whose name the style bears, used various existing scripts and nature as inspiration to develop a unique oval-based penmanship style that could be written very quickly and legibly to aid in matters of business correspondence as well as elegant personal letter-writing. Spencer, inspired by the forms that he saw of smooth pebbles in a stream, aimed to create a graceful script to resemble those shapes. While likely originally writing and developing the script with a quill pen, Spencerian script's evolution...
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  🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Mar-2024 21:20:01 JST 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱
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  @freeschool I am actually more adept at Copper plate in general (specifically italian hand) .. but you would need to be a real geek to know the differences.
  Even then though I am far from an expert.
  
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  🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Mar-2024 21:29:31 JST 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱
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  Well yea :) I just meant something more general like "pompas ass" :) yours might be better though :)
  
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  lucas (lucas@fitt.au)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Mar-2024 21:29:32 JST lucas
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  @freemo "pen geek" 😃
  
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  🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Mar-2024 21:34:21 JST 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱
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  @lucas Getting warmer :)
  
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  lucas (lucas@fitt.au)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Mar-2024 21:34:22 JST lucas
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  @freemo why not both? English will let you string things together almost infinitely if you get the order right!
  "pompas ass pen geek" almost makes sense, and almost alliterates. 😂
  
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  Louis Ingenthron (louisingenthron@qoto.org)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Mar-2024 21:36:22 JST Louis Ingenthron
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  @freemo The correct term is, undoubtedly, "PENitent"
  
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  lucas (lucas@fitt.au)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Mar-2024 21:36:59 JST lucas
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  @freemo "pompas pen proficianado" *does* alliterate!
  That's my final offer for name-calling on the internet haha
  
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