Back to the Future of Handwriting Recognition

Re:Back to the Future of Handwriting Recognition by snowwrestler on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @12:21AM (#17290684)

I don't know what to say other than that the entire purpose of written language is to carry information between people who aren't in a position to directly observe each other writing. (If they were, they could just talk and would not need to write.)

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Re:Back to the Future of Handwriting Recognition by 1787 on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @01:53AM (#17291003)

There exist counterexamples in the broader world. Historically in the Sinosphere it was commonish that two people might share a command of written Classical Chinese but not really be able to speak to each other. For a modern example, consider the paper below: https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED515291

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