Yanks, what the hell is cursive?

[Cyclonus]

Is it just a fancy way of saying joined up writing?

 

[StraightShooter2]

Is it just a fancy way of saying joined up writing?

It's this:

I think it's basically just a "fancier" and "more antiquated" style of writing than "print" (however since writing by hand is very defunct in this age of typing and texting, I think it's mainly just reduced to Microsoft Word fonts now).

 

[Cyclonus]

That's just joined up writing. All this time I was thinking that cursive was some beautiful looking but impossible to read code.

 

[Beautiful Border]

It's when you swear a lot

 

[Penis Drager]

That's just joined up writing. All this time I was thinking that cursive was some beautiful looking but impossible to read code.

The goal is that it's faster to write if you minimize the number of times you pick up the pen. So every word is joined together as one fluid stroke of the pen.
It can also be used as a means of writing in plain English so that niggers can't read it.

 

[Decepticon Spy]

The goal is that it's faster to write if you minimize the number of times you pick up the pen. So every word is joined together as one fluid stroke of the pen.
It can also be used as a means of writing in plain English so that niggers can't read it.

I write fucking slower using cursive than I do with everything in higher case. It's either ineffective or I have reached a new level of low-class.

 

[Immortal Technique]

It was written language we used until the niggers and spics were deemed too stupid to do it.

 

[Penis Drager]

I write fucking slower using cursive than I do with everything in higher case. It's either ineffective or I have reached a new level of low-class.

It takes practice. Even more on this spectrum is shorthand which looks nothing like normal english but a trained professional can read and write it just fine. Though that's an antequated writing method that ended up being replaced by the typewriter. Cursive is much quicker if you're trained in it (also, it was never taught the same way it is in modern schools. The point of cursive is you could write it fast in a legible way. The modern cursive symbols are a modern invention). If you have to spend time to think about how "proper" cursive is written, you're writing cursive wrong.

 

[Fastest Hand In The East]

cursive is a sign of higher society

 

[FreakyFredsTrannyGranny]

I wonder if they still teach cursive in elementary schools. In my adult life I've seen an excess of normal print that looks like it came from a 2-year-old, fuck cursive, let's make sure kids can write legible print before we set them out into the real world. Our schools are failing this simple task.

Spoiler: example

this lovely document from a refurbished computer supplier:

 

[TFT-A9]

it's where you curse a lot in your writing

e.g. "Fuckin' assholes put another goddamn shitty faggot in my department and made me teach the retarded motherfucker how to use a fucking fax machine"

 

[Absolutego]

It was written language we used until the niggers and spics were deemed too stupid to do it.

Computers/the internet are what killed it. When you can type all correspondence from an immediately accessible personal device, the utility of script that's harder to read but faster to write dwindles.

 

[TFT-A9]

Computers/the internet are what killed it. When you can type all correspondence from an immediately accessible personal device, the utility of script that's harder to read but faster to write dwindles.

RIP shorthand

I bet you could write something in shorthand and nobody'd be able to decipher it

 

[Red Hood]

It's a thing teachers used to do to waste your time in 2nd Grade.

 

[stares at error messages]

What you would have been taught provided your school wasn't free.

 

[Crazedking]

Its what doctors uses to make sure you and your pharmacist cant read your prescription.