• Guntrigger@feddit.ch
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    7 months ago

    I think you need to look up the word cursive. Whatever traumatised you in school had a name that you didn’t learn such as D’Nealian Script. Cursive is the all encompassing word for flowing joined up script.

    I have a hard time comprehending why anyone would have trouble reading it in the first place.

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      7 months ago

      It’s Zaner-Bloser script, and that is what Americans are referring to when they say cursive. We have joined-up script here but we don’t call it cursive, even if technically speaking, it is. And it isn’t traumatizing, it’s just a pointless waste of time, and nobody wants to actively waste their time when they could be doing something of value instead.

      It’s not hard to comprehend why people can’t read it, half of the letters don’t even resemble their print counterparts. You’d have to learn the cursive alphabet the same way you had to learn the print alphabet. If you don’t do that, you wouldn’t be able to read it, especially if somebody’s handwriting isn’t incredibly clean and clear.