- Joined
- Feb 3, 2013
26 years old here, and there was a lot of emphasis on cursive at my grade school but almost none in high school. But then I went from a Catholic school into a secular special ed program, so ... dunno. I still use cursive, though. (But not the capital letters. Fuck that Q-is-2 shit.)
I admit I have trouble reading Chris's cursive. What struck me about it, though, was how painstaking and poky it was. When someone gets up to speed while handwriting, the letters tend to slant a lot and take on a sort of regular irregularity--each one may be wonky-shaped, but they'll be consistently wonky-shaped, since the writer has developed their own distinctive hand. With Chris, the letters are all over the place and look like they were pressed deeply into the page. It must have taken him ages to write a complete sentence.
I admit I have trouble reading Chris's cursive. What struck me about it, though, was how painstaking and poky it was. When someone gets up to speed while handwriting, the letters tend to slant a lot and take on a sort of regular irregularity--each one may be wonky-shaped, but they'll be consistently wonky-shaped, since the writer has developed their own distinctive hand. With Chris, the letters are all over the place and look like they were pressed deeply into the page. It must have taken him ages to write a complete sentence.