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| chucknorrisman Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5448 days ago 321 posts - 435 votes  Speaks: Korean*, English, Spanish Studies: Russian, Mandarin, Lithuanian, French | Message 9 of 22 13 October 2010 at 12:25am | IP Logged | |||||
So are you saying that the cursive is an Eastern European thing, not just a Cyrillic thing? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| skchi Groupie United States Joined 5745 days ago 57 posts - 86 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 10 of 22 13 October 2010 at 2:17am | IP Logged | |||||
Off-topic, but since Lucas asked - I'm American, and I stopped writing in cursive when I was a teenager. I stopped because I found that cursive writing was hard to read. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| lynxrunner Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States crittercryptics.com Joined 5922 days ago 361 posts - 461 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish*, French Studies: Russian, Swedish, Haitian Creole | Message 11 of 22 13 October 2010 at 4:00am | IP Logged | |||||
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I still write in cursive. :P I find it faster to write in cursive, and I think being able
to read cursive is a good thing. However, I find it much easier to read printed text than cursive text. I particularly dislike people with overly elaborate cursive. Cyrillic cursive is a pain to read... even the one I write. I write the Т with the little bar on top and I write ш with a bar on the bottom (as I have been told some Russians do) because otherwise my writing would look like a bunch of little squiggles. Even with the bars, I have to stop and look at it really hard if I wrote it in a rush. I wonder how common cursive is in Western Europe. There's a fair amount of people in the U.S. that use cursive, in my experience, but most people use print (and there are some who can't read cursive). 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Andy E Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 7103 days ago 1651 posts - 1939 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French | Message 12 of 22 13 October 2010 at 11:14am | IP Logged | |||||
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Not that I do a great deal of non-keyboard "writing" anymore, but I would find it utterly bizarre to effectively "print" my hand-writing and were I to be presented with the same, I would assume that the author had a low literacy ability. My ten-year-old writes "joined-up" (as we call it in the UK), FFS.
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| Wierdkid20 Newbie United States Joined 4918 days ago 7 posts - 7 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Russian | Message 13 of 22 09 August 2011 at 2:04am | IP Logged | |||||
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I and most of my classmates stopped using cursive after 3rd grade,(7-8) mainly, I think, because our teachers couldn't read our handwriting and so told us use print. So learning that most russians use cursive was slightly panicking in the fact that the most I can still write in cursive is my name and now I need to learn it again albeit for a different alphabet Edited by Wierdkid20 on 09 August 2011 at 2:07am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| egill Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5696 days ago 418 posts - 791 votes Speaks: Mandarin, English* Studies: German, Spanish, Dutch | Message 14 of 22 09 August 2011 at 3:33am | IP Logged | |||||
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Some people suggest that cursive, at least the many-looped kind modeled
after copperplate engraving, and the kind that Russian/American cursive is based on, is overly ornate and harder to read (see images middle of the page): New York Times Article Edited by egill on 09 August 2011 at 3:35am 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| scarlett Diglot Newbie United States Joined 4877 days ago 19 posts - 21 votes Speaks: English*, French | Message 15 of 22 09 August 2011 at 4:21am | IP Logged | |||||
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Good handwriting is extinct here in the U.S. :D
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