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Neville Park
@nev@status.nevillepark.ca  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

so, my current de-stressing activity is learning English round hand from period copy-books. the lines in copy-books that aren't just practice letter-forms are horrifically boring, extremely cringe moral mottoes, and I'm running out of stuff to practice writing

current texts include the long-term nuclear waste warning message, old copypasta like "then who was phone", city names, scientific names, this alphabetic poem from an 1806 manual

any ideas for one-liners or very short texts? or, I guess, anything you want put in fancy script, albeit by a beginner

#calligraphy

In very large, amateur English round hand on graph paper: "Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down / Never gonna run around and desert you—Rick Astley"
In very large, amateur English round hand on graph paper: "Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down / Never gonna run around and desert you—Rick Astley"
In very large, amateur English round hand on graph paper: "Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down / Never gonna run around and desert you—Rick Astley"
Names of various major Linux distributions written (amateurishly) on graph paper in English round hand script, that stylized cursive that, for example, the "Canadian Club" whiskey wordmark is written in.
Names of various major Linux distributions written (amateurishly) on graph paper in English round hand script, that stylized cursive that, for example, the "Canadian Club" whiskey wordmark is written in.
Names of various major Linux distributions written (amateurishly) on graph paper in English round hand script, that stylized cursive that, for example, the "Canadian Club" whiskey wordmark is written in.
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Greg Lloyd
@Roundtrip@federate.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@nev
How about lines from Edward Lear poems?

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/edward-lear#tab-poems

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Tarcísio
@wyrquill@polyglot.city replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@nev Some famous poems, maybe? Ozymandias, The Raven, Wild Geese

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forestine
@forestine@sunny.garden replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@nev oh this is really nice! i went through a 1909 "business penmanship" book a few years ago and enjoyed it. but i have really fallen off

this is very nice lettering

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日本語まあまあ
@nihongomaamaa@mastodon.ie replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@nev Tom Lehrer's table of the elements? The very model of a modern major general? Pangrams? Palindromes? ...

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wohali
@wohali@timeloop.cafe replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@nev paging @astrid who might know of more period copy books or similar

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@petes_bread_eqn_xls@mastodo.neoliber.al replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@nev Bulwer Lytton contest winners

https://www.bulwer-lytton.com/winners

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