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> I did self study cursive a little bit when in high school, but I simply recognized it as a way to write things that are more beautiful even though to modern
by toast0 2y ago
> I did self study cursive a little bit when in high school, but I simply recognized it as a way to write things that are more beautiful even though to modern eyes it might be more difficult to read.
That sounds more like calligraphy, IMHO. Many of the letter forms for some styles of cursive are similar to what happens if you write in block letters without lifting your pen. Depending on the particular style, there's some exceptions and embelleshments, but if you're taking a lot of notes in a hurry with a pen in block letters it kind of devolves into cursive naturally.
Shorthand is generally phonetic, so that's a different skill, IMHO.
- kccqzy 2y agoYea I recognized that writing cursive is faster because I don't need to lift the pen that often. But the question is whether that makes the reader do more work. A few teachers in high school preferred that I stop because it was more troublesome for them to read. In any case I find any kind of handwriting to be slower than typing, and I am not even a good typist.