a vs a
all other letters are same, it's bugging me for a while
why is a different written/typed (o\ vs a)
Posted Jan 23, 2011, 6:16 PM UTC
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I write in all capitals unless I'm doing something scientific or mathematic. In that case, I write my a's with a hook.
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I blame cursive.
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I thought o\ was how you learned it if you learned cursive as a child and a is how you learned it if you print. There's other letters like that too. My writing is kind of a mixed up jumble of cursive and print letters. For example, I write the loopy 'l' and the cursive 'f'.
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Hrrm! So maybe people use "a" because they end up seeing typed words more than handwritten words?
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I know people that write it the way it's typed
In fifth grade I changed my handwriting to do that. I didn't like it and changed it back. I was so fickle back then.
i only know two people that do this and they're both nerds. i kinda want to know what the origins were/when it split
I began writing my lowercase a the way you see it in most fonts when I was in sixth grade. I just like the look of it more and it was easier for me to distinguish from an o.
And yes, I am a nerd.