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		mmt on Sept 8, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Cursive handwriting considered harmful; bring back... The one biggest take-away, which I wish had a reference, though it's self-supporting by example, is that we recognize letters by their tops, not their bottoms.

ars on Sept 8, 2009 [–]

That's because the bottoms all look the same, and not because of something intrinsic in looking at the top vs the bottom of line of words.

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