• @[email protected]
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    252 years ago

    Can someone explain why one cannot read cursive? It is just a tilted (sometimes fancy) font, what’s so hard about it?

    • @[email protected]
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      132 years ago

      There are some wonky letters, like capital G, S where if you never learned you wouldn’t know what you’re looking at.

    • @[email protected]
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      102 years ago

      As someone who didn’t learn English as a first language, cursive is like another language to me. I don’t recognize half of the letters, and i never encountered it enough to properly learn it or have an incentive to learn it.

    • Stez
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      72 years ago

      It’s not though like why the fuck is s a triangle that’s the only thing I know about it and can’t read it

      • Captain Aggravated
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        22 years ago

        I think at one point a cursive S was “draw an S without lifting your pen from one letter to another” so it comes out looking a bit like an 8. Then the top loop got smaller and smaller, until the one guy who codified the cursive alphabet just didn’t put the top loop on at all.

        This same guy for some reason decided capital Q should look like a 2.

        If I were in charge of the curriculum, students would get an introduction to cursive and an afternoon playing with it, basically so they can recognize it as a “font” and read it. Then let them continue to print or more likely type their work.

    • @[email protected]
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      32 years ago

      I was similarly confused when I first learned about this. We were never taught to write in “print”, so handwriting - cursive - was the norm.