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Isn't this sort of evolution kinda normal? Even though I learned modern German "Schreibschift" in school at the beginning of the 80's, I hardly ever used it out

Isn't this sort of evolution kinda normal? Even though I learned modern German "Schreibschift" in school at the beginning of the 80's, I hardly ever used it outside of school. And this 'modern' script is completey different from what my grandparent learned in the 1920's and 30's, which I cannot read either without a lot of effort and looking up character shapes. (googling around a bit, apparently the evolution of script was mostly dictated by the writing tool - bird vs steel quill etc..., so it makes sense that the transition to typing causes another evolutionary step).

jeltz 4y ago
Yes, it is very normal. Scripts have changed many times throughout history.
astrobe_ 4y ago
Depends on countries I guess. In France, the vast majority of the handwritten letters I have received or seen were written in cursive. At some point a handwritten "letter of motivation" was also a de facto requirement for job applications, and not writing it in cursive would not even come to the mind of anyone - precisely because it variability gave it a more "personal" vibe, a feeling that was exploited by the bogus graphology pseudo-science [1] at that time. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphology
- TacticalCoder 4y ago
  > Depends on countries I guess. In France, the vast majority of the handwritten letters I have received or seen were written in cursive. Up to this day kids at school in France are still taught cursive. Source: my daughter was for five years straight in a British College and didn't learn cursive, but she just moved to a french school and now has to write cursive (and AFAICT the school, although private, is following the official french cursus). No biggie though: she adapted in a few days. As to me I don't write in cursive anymore (although I did learn to write using cursive) but I've got zero problem reading cursive.
asddubs 4y ago
What your grandparents learned would probably have been sütterlin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%BCtterlin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%BCtterlin

jeltz 4y ago

Yes, it is very normal. Scripts have changed many times throughout history.

astrobe_ 4y ago

Depends on countries I guess. In France, the vast majority of the handwritten letters I have received or seen were written in cursive. At some point a handwritten "letter of motivation" was also a de facto requirement for job applications, and not writing it in cursive would not even come to the mind of anyone - precisely because it variability gave it a more "personal" vibe, a feeling that was exploited by the bogus graphology pseudo-science [1] at that time. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphology

TacticalCoder 4y ago
> Depends on countries I guess. In France, the vast majority of the handwritten letters I have received or seen were written in cursive. Up to this day kids at school in France are still taught cursive. Source: my daughter was for five years straight in a British College and didn't learn cursive, but she just moved to a french school and now has to write cursive (and AFAICT the school, although private, is following the official french cursus). No biggie though: she adapted in a few days. As to me I don't write in cursive anymore (although I did learn to write using cursive) but I've got zero problem reading cursive.

asddubs 4y ago

What your grandparents learned would probably have been sütterlin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%BCtterlin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%BCtterlin