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  2. Palilalia - Wikipedia

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    Palilalia is defined as the repetition of the speaker's words or phrases, often for a varying number of repeats. Repeated units are generally whole sections of words and are larger than a syllable, with words being repeated the most often, followed by phrases, and then syllables or sounds. [2][3] Palilalic repetitions are often spoken with ...

  3. Spencerian script - Wikipedia

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    Spencerian script is a handwriting script style based on Copperplate script that was used in the United States from approximately 1850 to 1925, [1][2] and was considered the American de facto standard writing style for business correspondence prior to the widespread adoption of the typewriter. Spencerian script, an American form of cursive ...

  4. Dysgraphia - Wikipedia

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    Dysgraphia is a neurological disorder [ 2 ] and learning disability that concerns impairments in written expression, which affects the ability to write, primarily handwriting, but also coherence. It is a specific learning disability (SLD) as well as a transcription disability, meaning that it is a writing disorder associated with impaired ...

  5. English orthography - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. English orthography comprises the set of rules used when writing the English language, [ 1 ][ 2 ] allowing readers and writers to associate written graphemes with the sounds of spoken English, as well as other features of the language. [ 3 ] English's orthography includes norms for spelling, hyphenation, capitalisation, word breaks ...

  6. Cursive - Wikipedia

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    Cursive is a style of penmanship in which the symbols of the language are written in a conjoined and/or flowing manner, generally for the purpose of making writing faster. This writing style is distinct from "print-script" using block letters, in which the letters of a word are unconnected and in Roman/Gothic letterform rather than joined-up ...

  7. Typeface anatomy - Wikipedia

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    Typeface anatomy describes the graphic elements that make up letters in a typeface. [1] [2] Typefaces are born from the struggle between rules and results. Squeezing a square about 1% helps it look more like a square; to appear the same height as a square, a circle must be measurably taller. The two strokes in an X aren't the same thickness ...

  8. Infinite monkey theorem - Wikipedia

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    The probability that 100 randomly typed keys will consist of the first 99 digits of pi (including the separator key), or any other particular sequence of that length, is much lower: (1/90) 100. If the monkey's allotted length of text is infinite, the chance of typing only the digit of pi is 0, which is just as possible (mathematically probable ...

  9. Cut-up technique - Wikipedia

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    A text created from lines of a newspaper tourism article. The cut-up technique (or découpé in French) is an aleatory narrative technique in which a written text is cut up and rearranged to create a new text. The concept can be traced to the Dadaists of the 1920s, but it was developed and popularized in the 1950s and early 1960s, especially by ...