I’m sure I’ve seen this discussion on lemmy at some point before. Basically there are different terms for writing and not all countries/regions use them to mean the same thing. Some people say “joined up letters” to mean cursive, some people use it to mean connecting what are basically printed letters, and others have never heard that phrase and think that casually connecting some letters is still printing because it’s not “formal” cursive.
For example, I learned this system of cursive and although I connect some letters when writing these days (although not all of them) and some of the letters are similar to printing, I definitely would never write (eg) a capital G or I like that anymore, or put 3 humps in my m and 2 in my n. I only heard “joined up writing” much more recently and I thought it would look like this or this, which is a lot closer to how I write than a cursive style.
Yeah several of those letters seem pretty inefficient. I stopped using cursive as soon as the teachers didn’t care (I think 4th grade?), but I wonder if we’d been taught a better system if I would’ve kept at it. My handwriting always was kind of a mess though.
Yeah it was particularly frustrating being taught how to write in cursive and how to touch type in the same school year… especially when no one could give me a straight answer as to why I had to keep banging my head against the handwriting of all kinds when it was clear I could do the work just fine if i could just fucking type the thing.
👍🏼 Indeed. I was going by this passage from the Wikipedia article
But at this point why not join the letters then? it seems like an unnecessary hurdle
I’m sure I’ve seen this discussion on lemmy at some point before. Basically there are different terms for writing and not all countries/regions use them to mean the same thing. Some people say “joined up letters” to mean cursive, some people use it to mean connecting what are basically printed letters, and others have never heard that phrase and think that casually connecting some letters is still printing because it’s not “formal” cursive.
For example, I learned this system of cursive and although I connect some letters when writing these days (although not all of them) and some of the letters are similar to printing, I definitely would never write (eg) a capital G or I like that anymore, or put 3 humps in my m and 2 in my n. I only heard “joined up writing” much more recently and I thought it would look like this or this, which is a lot closer to how I write than a cursive style.
the system of cursive letters you linked is what im referring to as a “bullshit ass writing system”.
Yeah several of those letters seem pretty inefficient. I stopped using cursive as soon as the teachers didn’t care (I think 4th grade?), but I wonder if we’d been taught a better system if I would’ve kept at it. My handwriting always was kind of a mess though.
Yeah it was particularly frustrating being taught how to write in cursive and how to touch type in the same school year… especially when no one could give me a straight answer as to why I had to keep banging my head against the handwriting of all kinds when it was clear I could do the work just fine if i could just fucking type the thing.