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๐ ๐ฝ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ท๐ด ๐ฌ๐ช๐น๐ฒ๐ฝ๐ช๐ต ๐ ๐ฒ๐ผ ๐น๐ป๐ธ๐ซ๐ช๐ซ๐ต๐ ๐ฝ๐ฑ๐ฎ ๐ถ๐ธ๐ผ๐ฝ ๐ฏ๐พ๐ท ๐ฝ๐ธ ๐๐ป๐ฒ๐ฝ๐ฎ, ๐ฝ๐ฑ๐ธ๐พ๐ฐ๐ฑ ๐ต๐ธ๐๐ฎ๐ป๐ฌ๐ช๐ผ๐ฎ ๐บ ๐ฒ๐ผ ๐ช๐ต๐ผ๐ธ ๐ช ๐ผ๐ฝ๐ป๐ธ๐ท๐ฐ ๐ฌ๐ธ๐ท๐ฝ๐ฎ๐ท๐ญ๐ฎ๐ป.
My cursive looks like a 10yr old wrote it, which is about the last time I actually wrote in cursive
I hate that they still teach it in schools. It means that for about 3-4 years per child, you get birthday and Christmas cards and you canโt read them.
Itโs not noticeably faster and itโs certainly not neater. Just let it die.
Also writing speed doesnโt really matter anymore. Most situations where writing speed used to matter now needs typing speed instead.
I donโt buy this. I take notes on paper all the time, what am I going to have my laptop or phone in my face during every conversation?
It is noticabley faster if you write with a fountain pen, or any pen with flowy ink.
Possibly, but I know exactly one person who writes with a fountain pen.
I remember wanting one in school, but the value was mostly in being able to flick ink at the other kids.
Iโm 37 and can barely read cursive, I hate it. I learned it in primary school, never used it, and here I am.
I play DnD and one of our campaigns got so confusing so our DM made a huuuuge flow chart explaining the story, consequences of our actions, where we can go next, etc. Itโs all in fucking cursive and I couldnโt read any of it so I continue to be confused :)
Itโs definitely not neater for lefties like me who smear our script as we write.
However, OCR input tech on phones and tablets are better at reading cursive than block print. Curiously, my grandsonโs curriculum in the Solano County School District dropped cursive writing and then picked it up again.
I heard more than a few US states decided to expend a law on requiring it because taught, your grandson might be a victim of such a policy.
I never recovered, and I donโt really know how to write print. So i either write cursive at the speed of around one letter per second, produce unreadable chicken scratching, or write very ugly all caps print because thatโs simple enough and actually readable and faster than trying to produce legible cursive.
I also donโt think I handwrite more than 100 words a year though so itโs ok
You may want to look into dyspraxia. (Especially so if you have ((or suspect you have)) ADHD or autism, etc.) I think itโs way more common than itโs diagnosed. Iโm the same way, and it helped explain a lot for me, so I thought Iโd throw it out there just in case! 'Cause Iโm getting those vibes haha!
What helped me get back to block print after six years of being required to write cursive is a shop/engineering drawing class that required us to use block print for our plates.
Our teacher in that subject taught us how to do block print, paying attention to each and every stroke and in what order we write them. I remember one of our first handful of plates just being the alphabet and some of the often used symbols. That helped us with our penmanship, without shaming anyone who might have had developed bad habits from previous years. Everyone is required to do it, so thereโs no shame in sucking at it.
It is neater and faster but people cannot read it nor reciprocate. It used to be more or less universal. I like it and use it, but wonโt if whatโs being written is for the public.
When I was young my teacher said โIf you want to be taken seriously you must use cursive!โ She also said Iโd never have a calculator in my pocket when I needed it, so thereโs that.
Lowercase m, n, u, v, and w are confusing as shit when placed next to or near each other.
I remember coming across a similar comment chain, and someone brought out cursive Hanzi, and everyone lost their minds.
this feels like a shitpost and i wont fully believe it until - i dunno when.
Cyrilic cursive uses dashes in the same way Latin uses dots. Try writing "minimumโ without them, and youโll get the same results.
You got me writing โvacuumโ and โanniversaryโ in cursive, and got so conscious about how I write it that my speed crawled to a stop and my handwriting got even worse than what I started with, lol!
In casual writing, I separate out v, w and other letters that are trickier to write in full cursive. Same goes with t, i, j so that I can do the crosses and dots before moving on.
All those seems to have done the job of making my cursive a bit easier to read. All hell breaks loose when I need to write really fast though.
EDIT: stupid formatting, lol!
I didnโt mean the word, but the way some people write the letters โmโ and โnโ with the bows downwards, so that the look really similar to โwโ and โuโ.
I do not agree that uppercase G is easier to decipher than uppercase S
Are either of them even in the picture? If so they definitely donโt look like the ones I learned in school.
Oh, wtf! I just looked up US cursive, and that thing is apparently a G? The horror! Thatโs certainly not what a cursive G looks like where Iโm from. And your capital S just looks like a bigger lowercase s. Same with capital A. Why does it look like a lowercase a?!
Edit: The cursive we learned 30 years ago, for comparison: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Svssfb.jpg
You may be cool, but youโll never be โCapital Lโ coolโฆ
nothing in this life feels better than writing a cursive f. i put my whole arm into it. those things are the highlights of anything i write
I am very proud of my F/f, too. I do them beautifully because it is the first letter of my name.
I am sad that my legal name is made only of boring letters other than a single g