Cross your sevens/cross your z's

[mainegreen]

So, do you?

[KitchenWitch]

1. Yes I do.

[mainegreen]

2. Replying to myself to state I cross both 7's and Z's!

So there!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. My dear mainegreen!

I cross both!

I love love love how they look that way!

:shrug:


:hi:

[Jimbo S]

4. I do!

In high school my French teacher crossed her sevens, as well as a physics teacher. My calc teacher crossed his z's.

I thought it made sense, so I started it. z <> 2, 7 <> 1.

Also made my old freeper boss's head explode.

[eyepaddle]

5. Gotta do 'em both--how else can I tell them from hastily scrawled

twos and fives?

I'm thinking umlauts over the two. ;)

[mainegreen]

6. Well, based on the votes so far, I guess only people who cross 'em care!

:rofl:

[mzteris]

7. yep.

When my daughter was in 2nd grade her teacher kept marking math answers "WRONG" because she crossed her 7's.

I finally had to have a little chat with the lady - my daughter's dad & his partner and I all crossed our 7's - so of course she thought that was the normal way. The teacher finally relented and said she wouldn't mark her answers wrong anymore. :eyes:

[Hosnon]

8. For the sake of clarity. nt.

[CottonBear]

9. Yep! I do it for clarity! n/t

[Karenina]

21. I was an occasional crosser UNTIL

The machine-read Überweisung MISREAD my 7 as a one. Had a human being looked at it the mistake would not have occurred as my one is a single line, no flag, no tail. Since then I have RELIGIOUSLY crossed my 7s.

[cloudbase]

10. I cross my zeds

but not my sevens. Go figure.

[Goblinmonger]

14. Zed's dead, baby. n/t

[Critters2]

11. I majored in French as an undergrad

We were required to write as the French do--flags on the tops of 1s, crossed 7s. If you put flags or tails on the tops of 1, you pretty much have to cross 7, or they look alike.

So, I got in the habit then, been doing it ever since.

[schmuls]

12. it is a European affectation!

[underpants]

13. I do- it makes it clear which is a 1 and which is a 7

Z's? I don't know I rarely write anything

[WilmywoodNCparalegal]

15. My racist bigot U.S. history teacher marked it

wrong everytime I crossed my zs and 7s. :nuke:

I do think it's an European thing.

[Rabrrrrrr]

16. Absolutely! To do otherwise is to be.... uncivilized.

I started doing it in German classes, but then it came in real handy studying engineering in college making sure that I could tell "2" from "z" and "Z" in my note-taking and math doing.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

17. Fuck no. I cross neither. That's a 'boomer thing.

I don't know anybody, save my mother, who does. :D

[Left Is Write]

24. I am most certainly not a boomer!

[Oeditpus Rex]

25. You mean a bØØmer thing?

:P

[seemunkee]

18. I just cross my zeros

[AtomicKitten]

28. you could make them into little happy faces with a little effort

[lpbk2713]

19. I slash my 7's and 0's plus I make my 8's with two little circles.

... as opposed to making an eight with one fluid gesture.

Must be some sort of OCD thing. :shrug:

[UTUSN]

27. Me, too!!1 n/t

[montanto]

20. Cross 'em dammit!!

[Left Is Write]

22. I do, and nobody had better try to stop me.

[MrScorpio]

23. A habit I picked up from my time in Europe

That, and wearing black

[AtomicKitten]

26. It's so Euro PLUS it's wicked bitchen