Some people also disagree.
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I always dot my "t"s and cross my "i"s.
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Beware - that’s how you go all cross-eyed and dotty!
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My theory is that the Egyptians actually had an alphabet very much like the ones we have today, but at one point went through one Rechtschreibreform too many. After nobody was quite sure anymore how to spell what they eventually came up with hiroglyphs.
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Don’t make them use ballpoints for this though. The extra pressure one of those needs compared to a fountain pen or fineliner makes cursive writing more difficult. And ffs include a “basic computer literacy” course. The number of <25s who send screenshots of text because they don’t know how to copy and paste is really worrying.
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Gel thingies with a good flow could be a good compromise for some.
No matter how or what I write, I always use too much pressure with a regular ballpoint. Which is why I prefer a fountain pen. But the gel pens are usually alright.
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What drives me crazy about that expression is that, while trying to convey a sense of meticulousness and thoroughness, it completely ignores the lowercase j!
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Been really happy using Sakura Pigma pens, myself.
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Don’t forget Ä ä Ö ö Ü ü !
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Thanks for this! I will now consider “crossing the t’s and dotting the i’s” to mean “making sure the common cases are considered while missing the details.”
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What about crossing the ø and Ø ?
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And ð Ð
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Very few hieroglyphs conveyed only meaning - most indicated a sound or 2-3 sounds.
Hieroglyphics is a word that means “like Egyptian hieroglyphs.” The word hieroglyphs was invented to specifically refer to the Ancient Egyptian writing with pictures, and means “sacred writing.”
There are many examples of Ancient Egyptian “cursive” writing that look a lot like the Arabic it precedes.
ETA:
∀ Á á À à Â â Ą ą Æ æ Ǣ ǣ Å å Ã ã Ä ä Ā ā ā͂ Ǟ ǟ Ǡ ǡ
Ḇ ḇ Ḃ ḃ Ḅ ḅ Ƀ ƀ Ɓ ɓ ᵬ ᶀ Ӹ
Ç ç Ć ć С́ с́ Ḉ ḉ Ĉ ĉ Č č Ċ ċ Ƈ ƈ Ȼ ȼ C̄ c̄
Ð ð đ Ɗ ɗ Ḋ ḋ Ḍ ḍ Ḑ ḑ Ḓ ḓ Ď ď Ḏ ḏ
É é Ê ê È è Ę ę Ĕ ĕ Ě ě Ɇ ɇ Ė ė Ẹ ẹ Ɛ ɛ ɜ З з Ә’ ә’ Ə ə ɘ Э э Ë ë ẻ Ē ē Ẽ ẽ ∃ З́ з́ Ҽ ҽ Ҿ ҿ ∑
Ϝ ϝ Ƒ ƒ Ḟ ḟ
Ǥ ǥ Ĝ ĝ Ğ ğ Ģ ģ Ɠ ɠ Ġ ġ
Just some examples from my HTML cheat sheet, who lives in one of my toolbars.
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Made me wanna tear out my hair. It was awful.
Looking back on it now, with all its attendant horrors, I’d rather tear out Cyril’s, if he had any.
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My handwriting was so atrocious that I learned typing in the 4th grade.
Luckily my parents were early adopters of PCs. I learned how to use the pre-window version MS-Word as a kid. My Dad relied on it as a HS Chemistry teacher for typing tests. It was the only word processing program at the time which showed subscripts on screen.
My bane is spiral notebooks.
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Honestly this sounds like a “common sense” initiative from the fucking nutsacks in the English Conservative party. I believe Rees Mogg forces everyone working with him to, really stupidly, put an extra space after a full stop.
Like you were writing on a monospace typewriter between the late 19th Century and the mid to late 20th. The technology I grew up with is the correct technology. Everything before it is too old, everything after is a desecration of what I found to be perfect.
I wish cursive handwriting was not foisted on our children by possibly well meaning but possibly education Karen types. The use case on history is pretty pointless as the gap between “comprehensible cursive to modern eyes” and “computer records” is pretty small leaving out long periods of history. I grew up reading cursive and would not be able to read 19th century writing unless I practised. Historians have to learn to appreciate their sources, we don’t expect them to be able to without this.
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This… the further back in time you go, with regards to documents one might find in an archive, the more you need to ability to translate it, even if it’s in the same language that you regularly read and speak. 
Historians who study stuff from even 100 years ago that includes anything that isn’t type written will need to work to understand their sources.
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What kind of idiot cites ‘Psychology Today’ as a reputable source?
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I do that all the time, especially when I write my email address because it has a zero in it.
I also say zero when speaking numbers when mixed with letters.
I also cross 7s occasionally when making notes for myself because I can’t always read my own writing.
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