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Oh, the American “cursive” is something more elaborate? That explains why people would hate it.
by TazeTSchnitzel 4y ago
Oh, the American “cursive” is something more elaborate? That explains why people would hate it.
- VintageCool 4y agoAmerican cursive is an impractical "idealized" script. Some scholar a hundred years ago decided that handwriting would be faster if the pen never left the page, ever. As a result, American cursive is full of tiny hand-cramping loops and loses legibility. With one exception, the capital I is unconnected. My teachers made me retake the cursive test every week for a year because I always tried to connect the capital I to the next letter, and it took that long before anyone told me which mistake I was making.
- Izkata 4y agoThat must have been a distinct style, the version I learned does connect capital I to the next letter, while capital D/U/W doesn't unless it's a tall letter like lowercase l: https://sciencetrends.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/800px-Cursive-700x479.png https://sciencetrends.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/800px-C...
- bowsamic 4y agoYeah the American style is extremely ornate and traditional. The UK style is literally just print letters but joined up, nothing fancy.
- Tesl 4y agoohhhhh I didn't know this. I've seen these complaints from Americans about cursive a million times and I never understood why writing with joined up letters was so hard.
- marvin 4y agoI wrote a comment of my own and scrolled through 700 comments before I found this response. The whole debate has seemed incomprehensible to me, for the 20 years that I've been aware of it.