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Originally Posted by gmw
You could be right.  I'd pulled the quote out back when I read it, and only just now reminded myself of the context:
So we're actually talking "hand" as in "handwriting", but I still don't understand the "English-looking" description. |
Perhaps English schools tend to favour a distinctive style when teaching kids to write? My Dad went to (English-language) boarding school near Rawalpindi, and ten years learning Urdu definitely left a mark on his handwriting. Maybe English schools, particularly those of a certain socio-economic stratum, have a similar identifying style?