i got chewed when i did the wrong stroke for korean letters over and over by an ex. she said 'you have to write it like this. just like your letter have a certain way to write them'. i informed her we do not have stroke orders in english. our writing is all just 'make the outcome look like this'. her dad also was very confused by 7s if you crossed them or 4s if it wasnt slanted. he would think they were something else.
ours, at best, is just to get kids to learn to write. after 1st or 2nd its as long as the letters look right, your good. there is no important to our stroke order. you can probably even grab a friend and will see them writing some letters differently than you do.
Sure, based on the direction we write in mostly, but if you choose to do your own thing and still make the right shape, most people aren't going to care.
I was always catching hell about the direction of my Os for some reason. Now nobody cares, also I can count on my writing hand how many times I've picked up a pen or pencil this year.
It's more about the right way to write it than that it's notable. If you wrote a line going the wrong direction it wouldn't make it a different word, it would just look weird and not be the "proper" way to write it. Generally you write from up to down and left to right
Being a native English speaker and knowing how many handwriting variations there are in my language, it's just kinda wild how strict others can be.
It also makes me think how I've heard stories of misspeaking in other languages by saying a word very slightly wrong, maybe with a different vowel sound or something. Crazy to me that small things like that can fully break communication in some languages while I can sit here and listen to 10 different accents of non-native English speakers who are pronouncong nearly every word in at least slight unusual/"wrong" ways, but I can still make out what they're saying and have a conversation. Some English speakers act like they can't, but many of them are just being bigots and asshats and not really trying. I have terrible auditory processing and can struggle with accents at times, but still figure it out.
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u/zappyguy111 12h ago
Looks like 公.
Doesn't mean much on its own, maybe grandpa?