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Unfortunately it doesn't seem to support cursive, which is how I and most people I know write.
by Thomashuet 6mo ago
Unfortunately it doesn't seem to support cursive, which is how I and most people I know write.
- Daneel_ 6mo agoI think that might be generational. I don’t know anyone under 40 who writes in cursive. I certainly don’t.
- tazjin 6mo agoIt is probably country and language dependent, I think. I don't know anyone under 40 who doesn't write in cursive (in Russian), and for other languages I personally also write in cursive (and learnt that in school). I'm in my 30s.
- jech 6mo ago> I don't know anyone under 40 who doesn't write in cursive (in Russian) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/34/%D0%9B%D0%B8%D1%88%D0%B8%D1%88%D1%8C_in_russian_cursive.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/34/%D0%9B%D... Understandable.
- d1sxeyes 6mo agoOP double negated - cursive is the norm for Russians of all ages. Russian cursive is actually not that bad to read for the most part. Russian “print” is super awkward because all the characters are very angular. There are some differences between generations (younger generations are more likely to write “т” in handwriting whereas the “correct” form looks more like a Latin “m”, but with obvious examples excluded (like the above), it just takes learning as a separate alphabet.
- jech 6mo ago> cursive is the norm for Russians of all ages. I know. I always feel utterly embarrassed when Russian-speaking friends write down a movie title for me, and I have to ask them to rewrite it in block capitals.
- necovek 6mo agoThat's a good one, I must admit. FWIW, Serbian Cyrillic cursive does not have that issue, or at least not as bad: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%80_%D1%81%D1%80%D0%BF%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B5_%D1%9B%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%86%D0%B5.png/500px-%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%80_%D1%81%D1%80%D0%BF%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B5_%D1%9B%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%86%D0%B5.png https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/%D...
- BoredPositron 6mo agoIt's more cultural than generational.
- IAmBroom 6mo agoIt's both. In the US, schools are turning away from teaching cursive, which clearly makes a generational cut.
- galangalalgol 6mo agoMy understanding is that they started turning away from it, but have turned back in many states. We were told it was important that we delay teaching our child typing until they had finished learning cursive because it had been discovered that teaching cursive developed something or other that I zoned out on while waiting to ask when that would be. Education has fads that don't seem to line up with peer reviewed articles that well. For instance, current reading instruction is non optimal for dyslexic students, while early 20th century instruction seems to (not entirely intentionally) worked much better. Edit: Apparently it has to do with dyslexia and executive functioning. California and Texas amongst others have now required it be resumed. So there is a roughly decade long gap in cursive in the us, maybe a little less.
- psychoslave 6mo agoThat's not generational. Living in France I can ensure you that in primary school, kids still learn and use cursive as main writing system. I wasn't even aware anyone would use anything else to write by hand in Latin script. I'm curious to get information about how people write elsewhere and how does it look.
- guenthert 6mo agoYeah, no idea how print became handwriting and handwriting longhand/cursive, but that's how it is and has been for decades in the USA.
- 47282847 6mo agoAs for Germany, as far as I know only few states still teach cursive: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schulausgangsschrift https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schulausgangsschrift The modern standard is a non-connected font https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grundschrift https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grundschrift
- dpoloncsak 6mo agoWent through school in the early 2000s in US. We were taught cursive (script), but I don't think I've used it since school. Seems odd, in hindsight, to teach hand-written prose uses a different set of symbols than when its typed out
- necovek 6mo agoHow fast can you write in cursive vs non-cursive? I am much slower in non-cursive when writing. The only issue is that my cursive is pretty lousy looking.
- dpoloncsak 6mo agoI'd hedge to say roughly the same, but that's writing print in chicken-scratch handwriting (which is my norm) and under-practiced with cursive. I'd suspect after using cursive a bit I would speed up. Similar to using home-row when typing vs pick-and-peck or whatever they call it My phone would transcribe even quicker than that, though, which would probably be my go-to instead of hand-writing
- Angostura 6mo agoStill taught in uk primary schools as the fastest way to get words down in paper
- antonyh 6mo agoConversely I don't know anyone who doesn't write in cursive. It's still taught in schools in the UK, and I still write with it and actively aim to improve.
- siliconpotato 6mo agoi'm in the UK and most people i know drop cursive for non-joined up handwriting as soon as they get the opportunity.
- antonyh 6mo agoMy daughter simply cannot write without joining the letters, finds it impossible. Time will tell if this remains true. Everyone is different in the best possible way.
- goodmythical 6mo ago>how I and most people I know write. I do not know a single person who writes any cursive outside their signature.