Flamenca wrote:Rosemarie wrote:I worked in Forensic Science and, apparently, one thing indicative of an upper case 'R' in the middle of a word (e.g. RoRy) was the probability that the writer had received a Catholic education in Ireland.
That makes sense to me. The monarch signs their Christian name followed by a capital R to show they rule - see Elizabeth's below.
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When your land has been stolen 'in the name of the Crown', your religion denied, and your very existence denigrated to the fate of a slave, it makes sense that you would declare yourself (in writing) to be as good as a true king - but not verbally as Jesus (King of Israel) did, or you would definitely have suffered the same fate as him.
The schools where one was taught to write have a far more significant impact on one's handwriting than any particular social class, theology, or even psychological makeup.
I have letters written by my mother, and my would-have-been mother-in-law, both grew up in the 30s-40s in Los Angeles and were taught in the L.A. public schools, and although they never met for decades, they have strikingly similar handwriting styles, from the same cursive style book that the L.A. School District used back then. My brother, who is very definitely left-handed, was forced to write with his right hand when he was first learning, and eventually he rebelled, and started using his dominant hand. To this day I have a hard time reading his letters- some things, if you don't learn them by a certain age, you kind of miss the boat.
This whole royalty thing, and not having an official, guarded separation between church and state is a little alien to me. The two should, at least in theory, be kept apart. Absolute power corrupts absolutely as they say.
As far as Rory's handwriting being influenced by his school's teaching, that is probably true. I noticed, Donal's handwriting also tends to be sprinkled with capital Rs within certain words, especially when he writes his brother's name. He does it too, RoRy. I never would have noticed it had Flamenca not pointed it out
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Flamenca, I remember in the late 60s & 70s, most of my friends were trying to be into that, it's uncool to act like you notice what you notice, or to react in any way like you're starstruck by celebrities. Ironic that a lot of those same celebrities will themselves want autographs and memorabilia of their own heroes.
But if I had the choice to now have a 100% authentic autographed item of Rory's that belonged to someone else, or to have actually met the man and exchanged words with him in this life, I would choose to have met him. I'd rather have that memory for me to keep. So consider yourself lucky
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I don't think Jesus Himself ever declared He was the king of Israel, others did that. "Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight . . ." KJV of the bible.
