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To: long-gone who wrote (78683)	10/20/2001 5:30:52 PM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116914

People who write Arabic often do it with the left hand, drawing not writing the script as it is not written left to right. Engineering schools teach people to write capital block letters for drafting. I write all notes myself in block capital letters as fast as most people write cursively as I was taught to do so in an engineering technical school. This type of English mixed upper and lower case writing is taught in foreign schools to people who take English a second language. By third grade children are taught to print or write with a slant and also are allowed to write cursively or with all block letters. Penmanship is no longer emphasized in Canadian or American schools. By the time they are twenty most people cannot write with block letters or mixed case printing at all well. The usage of mixed case printing was the universal case prior to 1960 up until grade 4 but the children were allowed to slant the printing and all did so as it was faster. So non slanted printing would probably not be from someone who could compose a good letter and not make spelling or other minor mistakes. Vertical writing may be an engineering trait, or the supposition of a person that this is how children are taught in America. In fact children who would write in that manner do not form letters as well as the address of the mixed case letter. So it is imitative of children but in a suppositional way, not accurate. The characters were drawn carefully, possibly with the opposite hand to the handedness of the person doing it. They probably did this and wrote on purpose in a juvenile fashion to disquise their handwriting and encourage the recipient to think the note was written by a younger person. Personally written notes from people are quite often opened eagerly and first before other correspondence. In the case of these notes they were written with the intent that they would be thought of as "cute", and be opened by or read to the person to whom they were addressed. What is interesting is the usage of a postage meter. This is very odd as children do not address letters this way. It is very possible that a school that taught military science or engineering as at Tehran or Baghdad would teach persons to print in this fashion. There are quite a few graduates of these schools in America today. Some may not be symapthizers with anti american causes and many may not support their home governments. EC<:-}