# Writing differently in different languages?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 11, 2009, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/writing-differently-in-different-languages/485353 "2009-02-11T12:01:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2009, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/writing-differently-in-different-languages/485353/21 "2009-02-12T17:14:29Z")

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Like others, I am very precise in my Hindi writing. I am not as confident as in English so I make an effort to write very neatly and sometimes I even skip lines.

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**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2009, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/writing-differently-in-different-languages/485353/22 "2009-02-12T21:21:35Z")

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> [@CookingWithGas](#):
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> Handwriting is part of a culture, a little like accents.
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> All Italians I know write numerals in a much more stylized way than Americans, things like exaggerating the curly-cue in the “nose” of the 2.

If you go into a kindergarten or first grade classroom, you’re likely to see the Roman alphabet on the wall in both upper and lower case. Look a little more closely and it will probably have numbers that show you how to sequence the strokes of each letter. Most writing systems are taught this way.

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