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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@vwbusguy I believe I was taught D'Nealian.
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Scott Williams 🐧replied to Scott Williams 🐧 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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@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 🐧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).