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As a Brit with two small kids, I was on the lookout for some practise books to help them practice what we call “joined up” writing and kept finding US based one
by noneeeed 4y ago
As a Brit with two small kids, I was on the lookout for some practise books to help them practice what we call “joined up” writing and kept finding US based ones. I finally understood why so many Americans hate cursive, it seems a lot more florid and loopy than what we teach, almost like it’s trying to replicate Victorian copper plate.
I can really sympathise with how frustrating it must be to learn and to write well and quickly for a lot of people.
- Angostura 4y agoYup. Our joined up writing seems a pragmatic and useful tool - it's certainly been taught that way since the 1960s. Though I was always rather jealous of my mum's fully elegant handwriting.
- iso1631 4y agoI haven't written any 'joined up' writing since school 20 years ago, the only writing I make is short notes for myself which is far more legible than the nonsense they force on kids in primary school.
- udp 4y agoYes, UK educated here and I’ve literally never heard of “cursive” (other than from Americans). Just “joined up handwriting” that we learnt in primary school in those books with ascent/descent lines, which certainly seems to be a lot simpler than American cursive.