If you're American, when you were taught cursive, did you learn that the common American #cursive is called "Spencerian" script?
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Scott Williams 馃惂replied to Inaya Shujaat 毓賳丕賷賴 卮噩丕毓鬲 馃嚦馃嚳馃嚨馃嚫 last edited by [email protected]
@InayaShujaat @StephenBrooke Yeah, I had a follow up post to the OP about Palmer, D'Neal, etc.
Arguably, these are ultimately styles or methods of Spencerian script (onboarding children to writing Spencerian by simplifying it) rather than distinctively different scripts.
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@vwbusguy I believe I was taught D'Nealian.
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Scott Williams 馃惂replied to Scott Williams 馃惂 last edited by [email protected]
@InayaShujaat @StephenBrooke I technically learned D'Nealian (ie, "monkey tails") when I first learned cursive in the late 1980s in Indiana. My parents and grandparents had slightly different ways of writing certain letters, but it never seemed like a different script entirely. My grandparents all clearly learned standard Spencerian and definitely had the more stylish cursive.
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@kolev I was taught D'Nealian method (ie, "monkey tails") when I first learned it in the late 1980s.
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@kolev Same. I write in cursive and prefer analog clocks. I also drive a stick shift, put two spaces after a period, and use Oxford commas.
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Scott Williams 馃惂replied to Scott Williams 馃惂 last edited by
@kolev I do, however, only write Hebrew with square script as I never properly learned cursive for modern Hebrew.
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Scott Williams 馃惂replied to Jim P. last edited by [email protected]
@jimp @RL_Dane I learned cursive where I grew up in Indiana. My son had cursive introduced in 3rd grade here in California and not rigorously taught. When I was growing up, since around 4th grade, assignments were generally required to be in cursive and in ink, though that varied by the teacher/subject up until high school when things began to be required to be typed and printed by that point. We started learning cursive in 1st grade.
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@vwbusguy I myself find it hard to write Hebrew in square script unless I have a quill.
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@kolev I use fountain pens and it's pretty natural for me. For fountain pens, there's also a "Hebrew nib", aka "Architect nib" that is ground vertically, so horizontal strokes are wide and vertical strokes are more fine (basically the opposite of a stub nib).