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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Stephen Brookereplied to Scott Williams ๐ง last edited by
@vwbusguy We learned the simpler 'Palmer' cursive at our school.
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Inaya Shujaat ุนูุงูู ุดุฌุงุนุช ๐ณ๐ฟ๐ต๐ธreplied to Stephen Brooke last edited by
@vwbusguy @StephenBrooke thatโs what we all learned, I believe, since Spencerian was phased out by 1925, in favour of Palmer.
(Born and raised in Texas, now living in NZ)
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Scott Williams ๐งreplied to Scott Williams ๐ง last edited by
If you want to dive down the rabbit hole, Spencerian script evolved over time with different methods, such as D'Nealian, Zaner-Bloser, and Palmer Method, so this explains why some of us learned to write our t/T's and r's a little differently, etc.
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Scott Williams ๐งreplied to Inaya Shujaat ุนูุงูู ุดุฌุงุนุช ๐ณ๐ฟ๐ต๐ธ 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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ืึผึธืืึฟreplied to Scott Williams ๐ง last edited by
@vwbusguy I believe I was taught D'Nealian.
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Scott Williams ๐งreplied to Scott Williams ๐ง 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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Scott Williams ๐งreplied to ืึผึธืืึฟ last edited by
@kolev I was taught D'Nealian method (ie, "monkey tails") when I first learned it in the late 1980s.
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Jim P.replied to R. L. Dane :debian: :openbsd: last edited by
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ืึผึธืืึฟreplied to Scott Williams ๐ง last edited by
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Scott Williams ๐งreplied to ืึผึธืืึฟ last edited by
@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 ๐งreplied to Scott Williams ๐ง 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 ๐งreplied 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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ืึผึธืืึฟreplied to Scott Williams ๐ง last edited by
@vwbusguy I myself find it hard to write Hebrew in square script unless I have a quill.
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Scott Williams ๐งreplied to ืึผึธืืึฟ last edited by
@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).