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   🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Thursday, 28-Mar-2024 19:15:12 JST 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

   • SpaceLifeForm
   • Trinsec
   • 天空вℓσи∂ [Unemployed edition]

   @trinsec

   Knowing very little about all this, and maybe @skyblond has some better insight. But I have a theory. I think its a hold-over mostly from the past when they used brush strokes. A brush stroke will very clearly look different depending on the direction you do it. Also it will pull paint along sometimes if it crosses its own stroke.

   So I suspect the direction and order of strokes comes from the fact that it was very critical with a crush, and now with pencils it matters much less if at all but its just ingrained
   int he language at this point.

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     • Trinsec
     • 天空вℓσи∂ [Unemployed edition]

     @trinsec

     The only modern day reason i could think of for a stroke order is "well if you do it in this order each stroke ends close to where the next one begins so you can write the character a bit faster"

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     Trinsec (trinsec@trinsec.org)'s status on Thursday, 28-Mar-2024 19:21:39 JST Trinsec

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     • 天空вℓσи∂ [Unemployed edition]

     @freemo@qoto.org @skyblond@qoto.org @SpaceLifeForm@infosec.exchange That's actually a very valid viewpoint, I hadn't considered this. I can see this making a lot of sense. And nowadays the reasoning could have shifted to 'so you won't forget a line here and there'.

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     • SpaceLifeForm
     • Trinsec
     • 天空вℓσи∂ [Unemployed edition]

     @trinsec

     Ya know, I dont know if i was ever taught a stroke order on the latin alphabet in school... maybe. I know in calligraphy its fairly common to place a stroke order when learning though. it has to do with the fact that the strokes are relative to eachother so it does make it easier to get the right subtle lines since each stroke depends on the relative position of the other.

     @skyblond @SpaceLifeForm

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     Trinsec (trinsec@trinsec.org)'s status on Thursday, 28-Mar-2024 19:30:57 JST Trinsec

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     • 天空вℓσи∂ [Unemployed edition]

     @freemo@qoto.org @skyblond@qoto.org @SpaceLifeForm@infosec.exchange
     Well, you can compare it to the latin alphabet. You have to draw the 'a' in a certain order too at schools. Later in your life you do whatever you want, but at the start you have to draw those letters a certain way.
     
     I even had a map full of lines where I had to draw those letters so nicely in cursive in a certain way (I don't think they do this anymore? The writing is terrible nowadays lol), but I haven't written in cursive in ages anymore, but my dad still does. I write more clearer than cursive, but back then in school, yeah, you gotta do it a certain way.
     
     (Cursive was also invented to write faster, so it's also in line with your thinking there)