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Thoughts, Sherlockians?
Daisey, erzascarletbookgasm, CogsOfEncouragement, AnneCecilie, Born.A.Reader, Aimeesue, Larkken, Librarybelle, mom2bugnbee, Read4life, StayCurious, Sace, CatLass007, Mollyanna, curiouserandcurioser, eeclayton, dabbe, IndoorDame, kelli7990, TheAromaofBooks, 5feet.of.fury, Tineke, Blackink_WhitePaper, RayHallucinogen, Pageturner1, PageShifter, AllDebooks, AnnR, kimrenee, aroyse, CrystalE02Librarybelle That was odd, but perhaps the Inspector was unwilling to arrest such important people in the community. It still does not seem right that it took the Inspector seeing their guilty expressions to realize they were the culprits. Leave it to Holmes to solve a crime while he is convalescing! 7d
IndoorDame I thought it was funny that the inspector was convinced by the looks on their faces not the fact that they were strangling Sherlock 😂. The familial relationship in handwriting confused me. I know handwriting analysis got a lot more weight then, and handwriting itself was more important/strictly taught/distinctive… but I couldn‘t figure out how it would be tied to families since it‘s not like parents were teaching their kids to write 7d
CogsOfEncouragement @IndoorDame Though I have not seen this consistently among families, I used to have a hard time telling the difference between my SIL‘s and MIL‘s handwriting. It is so very similar. After being familiar with their writing after a few years I was able to see the difference at a glance but not in early days. 7d
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IndoorDame @CogsOfEncouragement interesting! 7d
dabbe @IndoorDame Exactly! Is handwriting a skill pre-wired in our DNA or is it a learned skill? And even though handwriting analysis was pretty new then, it seems to be not very reliable today. (edited) 6d
dabbe @IndoorDame @CogsOfEncouragement #ditto! 6d
IndoorDame @dabbe I always took it as a learned skill. Everyone I know who learned handwriting from nuns at Catholic schools in the 1940s-70s has a certain likeness about their writing… 6d
dabbe @IndoorDame Me, too. Everyone in my family has WAY different handwriting! Some of us can barely chicken scratch! 😂 6d
Cuilin @IndoorDame remembering from my early childhood development classes, reading and writing are both learned and not innate, different from language acquisition, and talking. (edited) 5d
Cuilin @dabbe I do love a mystery that includes notes and handwriting, even though I don‘t think there‘s much science to back it up. 5d
dabbe @Cuilin I do, too! And I especially love ciphers! 5d
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