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@Carnival-Boy said:
I had to look up cursive. You mean what we call 'joined up writing'? How else do you write if not joined up (ie each letter in a word joins with the next)?
Unless I'm missing something.
I haven't written cursive since grade school... even my signature is something that can be barely called cursive. When I write (which is basically never) I write in print or block, which is much easier to read, although my handwriting is abysmal.
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@Carnival-Boy said:
I had to look up cursive. You mean what we call 'joined up writing'? How else do you write if not joined up (ie each letter in a word joins with the next)?
Unless I'm missing something.
We call the illegible scrolling thing only done in grade school cursive. That's probably what you call joined up writing.
For adult writing by hand we only use printing (not joined up) because it is clearly legible which, in theory, is the only value to having written something.
Many people refer to using a combination of the two as "girl writing." Many girls (most, I would guess) adopt a sloppy combination of the two that is kind of ridiculous.
Cursive is how they wrote documents and letters in the eighteenth century. It's designed to make writing faster and lazier at the cost of the receiving party being able to read it.
In engineering school cursive wasn't even allowed as it was deemed unprofessional to not print clearly and even our printing was modified to ensure maximum accuracy.
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@coliver said:
I haven't written cursive since grade school... even my signature is something that can be barely called cursive. When I write (which is basically never) I write in print or block, which is much easier to read, although my handwriting is abysmal.
Same here, I'm physically unable to write cursive anymore, have not used it since grade school and my signature is nothing like cursive.
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So you're saying that none of the letters you write are joined? There is space between each letter? Or am I still missing something?
This is an example of my writing. I'm not the neatest, but here I'm only writing for my own benefit. I don't join every letter, it looks like around half. I couldn't imagine writing any other way without being really, really slow.
What's your writing like?
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My handwriting models after my mother's, which is a hybrid of print and cursive.
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@thanksaj said:
My handwriting models after my mother's, which is a hybrid of print and cursive.
That's what we call "girl writing."
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@Carnival-Boy said:
So you're saying that none of the letters you write are joined? There is space between each letter? Or am I still missing something?
This is an example of my writing. I'm not the neatest, but here I'm only writing for my own benefit. I don't join every letter, it looks like around half. I couldn't imagine writing any other way without being really, really slow.
What's your writing like?
Yeah, that is neither cursive nor printing. Your "Add to" is printing, your "domain and uninstall" are cursive.
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Girl writing, that's a new one.
Here a sample of mine just sitting here on the desk
A few of my characters are done in cursive style, but they still don't link. The main letter that's missing for me that I always do cursive is J my first initial. I like the cursive look better, so I just kept it.
A few things might seem linked, but it's more laziness, not picking the pen/pencil up enough to not leave a mark on the page.
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@Dashrender said:
Girl writing, that's a new one.
I've almost never seen guys write with alternating cursive and printing, but nearly all girls seem to do it. It's reliable enough that you can usually, in the US at least, use it to identify gender through writing.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
Girl writing, that's a new one.
I've almost never seen guys write with alternating cursive and printing, but nearly all girls seem to do it. It's reliable enough that you can usually, in the US at least, use it to identify gender through writing.
I'm sure you're right, it's just not a term I've ever heard used.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
Girl writing, that's a new one.
I've almost never seen guys write with alternating cursive and printing, but nearly all girls seem to do it. It's reliable enough that you can usually, in the US at least, use it to identify gender through writing.
I'll post what mine looks like on here later. No paper around. Or pens...lol
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
Girl writing, that's a new one.
I've almost never seen guys write with alternating cursive and printing, but nearly all girls seem to do it. It's reliable enough that you can usually, in the US at least, use it to identify gender through writing.
Yeah, I know exactly what you are talking about. Alot of girls have interchangeable handwriting especially when in highschool.
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This is mine, as promised...
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As a left handed person, I hate writing by hand. Period.
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@scottalanmiller said:
I've almost never seen guys write with alternating cursive and printing, but nearly all girls seem to do it. It's reliable enough that you can usually, in the US at least, use it to identify gender through writing.
Are you saying that if I was American I'd be a girl?
Surely the main point is that cursive is faster to write and therefore better.
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@Carnival-Boy said:
Surely the main point is that cursive is faster to write and therefore better.
I know people say this, but i have never seen proof.
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@Carnival-Boy said:
Surely the main point is that cursive is faster to write and therefore better.
I've heard that the entire point of writing is to be able to be read and therefore cursive isn't better. The idea that speed beats readability is an odd one. Sure, sometimes you can read it, but many times you cannot. It's incredibly difficult to read (ergo, slow) so it generally defeats any speed advantages that it might have. But I'm not convinced that it is faster to write either. At least not to write correctly. If you are okay with it not being legible, sure anything is fast when it is reduced to scribbling.
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@scottalanmiller said:
The idea that speed beats readability is an odd one.
It's only odd if you assume the two are mutually exclusive.
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I'm going to have to give this one to Scott. Even the people I know who use cursive beautifully, it's still harder to read than hand written print. Cursive is rarely if ever easier to read than print.
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@Carnival-Boy said:
@scottalanmiller said:
The idea that speed beats readability is an odd one.
It's only odd if you assume the two are mutually exclusive.
I've never seen them not be mutually exclusive. I have never seen cursive, from anyone, that was easy to read. Not even when written slowly. When written quickly it is pretty much universally nothing but scribbles.
