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    Question Your favourite word...

    What are your favourite words to write 'calligraphically'?




    I was inspired by these words -

    "Try writing your favorite words.
    Enjoy the comfort of writing.
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    - which were in the note at the bottom of Notsim's picture in this post;
    http://fpgeeks.com/forum/showthread....l=1#post202302

    Some words are simply a joy to write; 'Calligraphy' is often chosen as a practice word in handwriting training and practice for its obvious connotations, but it also has an inherent capacity to accommodate demonstration of flair, grace, and finesse by the individual writer.

    A similar word is 'Charity' - this is a word that, for me, lends itself to both easy and fluid writing, and also artistic expression.

    We can be sure that knowing the meaning of a word, combined with the conscious act of physically representing it in ink on paper, can subconsciously communicate emotional connotations back to the writer's mind, as well as draw on and, perhaps even, 'cathartically dispel' emotional energy. We can also be sure of certain words having different connotations to, and triggering different emotions in, each of us; the same words will be capable of causing differing psychological reactions depending on each individual's personal experience.
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    My favourite word is 'tea'. I don't write about it, I drink it! OK sometimes I write it as 茶.
    My other writing instrument is a pencil.

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    This will be in German, because I write German a lot, and I hope there will be no admin concerns: Victor jagt zwoelf Boxkaempfer quer ueber den grossen Sylter Deich (transl.: Victor chases twelve pugilists straight accross the great dam of Sylt). Please note that the 'ae', 'oe' and 'ue' (other than in 'quer') are German Umlaute and that the double 's' in 'grossen' is an 'sharp s' or sz.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RuiFromUK View Post
    My favourite word is 'tea'. sometimes I write it as 茶
    Quote Originally Posted by inklord View Post
    Victor jagt zwölf Boxkämpfer quer über den großen Sylter Deich
    Since this is the 'art & calligraphy' forum, may I ask for a demo sample, please?

    And for you...

    charity.jpg
    Last edited by SIR; March 10th, 2017 at 12:49 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SIR View Post

    Quote Originally Posted by inklord View Post
    Victor jagt zwölf Boxkämpfer quer über den großen Sylter Deich
    Since this is the 'art & calligraphy' forum, may I ask for a demo sample, please?


    And for you...

    charity.jpg
    OK, you just intimidated the livin' daylights out of me - my best calligraphy attempts seem to barely approach uniformity...
    ...and you obviously know how to do those Umlaut and Scharf-s characters (thanks for editing my text quote!), which I (also quite obviously) haven't mastered yet on these new-fangled devices.
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    My submission

    Omas lover, and have a few other pens

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    Yay! M is my favorite letter, followed by Y. M is so much like water, which is its origin as a pictograph in Semitic. Cool word. I also like that miniscule Y and H can be written as flipped over version of each other.
    Fortibus es in ero

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    Quote Originally Posted by manoeuver View Post
    I also forgot the obvious, which is that, if written in just the right way, mininum spells minimum when flipped over. Good word!
    Fortibus es in ero

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    Quote Originally Posted by inklord View Post
    OK, you just intimidated the livin' daylights out of me - my best calligraphy attempts seem to barely approach uniformity...
    Redraft, redraft, redraft.

    Quote Originally Posted by inklord View Post
    ...and you obviously know how to do those Umlaut and Scharf-s characters (thanks for editing my text quote!), which I (also quite obviously) haven't mastered yet on these new-fangled devices.
    Google is one's friend, allegedly .

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    Apparently 'happy' is another word which can be written in such a way as to be read the same upside-down .

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