At work I've noticed that many people write the number seven the European way, with the horizontal slash through it. I find this really irritating. I understand that there's a practical purpose for writing a 7 that way, which is to differentiate between an old-school 1 numeral. But since very few people in America write a 1 the way a typewriter does, I find the European 7 to be completely unnecessary (and dare I say, unpatriotic?). At the same time, I recognize that it's also completely harmless, and I know this is a ridiculous thing to be writing about. But I feel compelled nonetheless.
I think what bothers me is the feeling that most people are writing the European 7 to be trendy, although they've most certainly had no level of conscious thought about it like I have. But, if that's truly the way you were taught to write a 7, maybe I can forgive you.
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That's the way I write them. I often write my 1's the way a typewriter would. Suck on that, big guy.
Gay.
In the 4th grade I had an awesome (read horrible) math teacher that forced all of us to write it that way. She would actually mark a problem incorrect if we didn't use it. So yeah, thanks to my Nazi elementary school teacher I am forever condemned to write my 7's with a line through the center.
Wow—total Nazi. Just goes to show that at a young age, teachers can instill anything they want—the most arbitrary things—and punish you for them.
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