> Zed and two? RLY? (Crossing your Z is a Germanic thing for me, which is why I do it - I grew up in W Germany).
Crossing z's was something I picked up naturally in the states in High School Algebra, for the reasons listed. It's not a matter of "can you write or not"—that a very weirdly dismissive line of argument—it's a matter of "how can you provide the most information redundancy so that when you're scribbling notes quickly you and others can decipher them later".
This advice in this article dates to 2007, so it's not a modern cope for the terrible handwriting of modern college kids like you seem to think.
> Who on earth screws up writing rho with a p? Yes, I know that someone will but they need to write the symbol properly.
That's literally the point of this piece: to provide help to people who are new to these symbols so they can both recognize the difference between them and write them distinctly.
Are you somehow under the impression that every just intuitively picks up the distinctions between these symbols?
Crossing z's was something I picked up naturally in the states in High School Algebra, for the reasons listed. It's not a matter of "can you write or not"—that a very weirdly dismissive line of argument—it's a matter of "how can you provide the most information redundancy so that when you're scribbling notes quickly you and others can decipher them later".
This advice in this article dates to 2007, so it's not a modern cope for the terrible handwriting of modern college kids like you seem to think.
> Who on earth screws up writing rho with a p? Yes, I know that someone will but they need to write the symbol properly.
That's literally the point of this piece: to provide help to people who are new to these symbols so they can both recognize the difference between them and write them distinctly.
Are you somehow under the impression that every just intuitively picks up the distinctions between these symbols?