I hope cursive sticks around. I love to see beautiful handwriting, just can't produce it.
Both my Arabic and my Mandarin teachers said I had nice handwriting in those scripts, which was funny because my English cursive is loopy and jagged at the same time, not totally illegible but not something you want to look at. I learned to print legibly on the board when I was teaching, but when I commented on papers by hand, wrote my horrible scrawl, to the despair of my students. Online students get a much better deal!
I can see how bad my cursive is, just don't seem to have the fine muscle control to make it better--or maybe didn't have the will when I was young to learn to make the right shapes. And then again, I spent quite some time working on calligraphy (mostly scripts like uncial and italic) and wasn't great, but passable. Must be something about motivation when it comes to everyday cursive.
I have never learned even to read cursive Arabic or any form of Chinese, and can't even read the printed version of either anymore.
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Both my Arabic and my Mandarin teachers said I had nice handwriting in those scripts, which was funny because my English cursive is loopy and jagged at the same time, not totally illegible but not something you want to look at. I learned to print legibly on the board when I was teaching, but when I commented on papers by hand, wrote my horrible scrawl, to the despair of my students. Online students get a much better deal!
I can see how bad my cursive is, just don't seem to have the fine muscle control to make it better--or maybe didn't have the will when I was young to learn to make the right shapes. And then again, I spent quite some time working on calligraphy (mostly scripts like uncial and italic) and wasn't great, but passable. Must be something about motivation when it comes to everyday cursive.
I have never learned even to read cursive Arabic or any form of Chinese, and can't even read the printed version of either anymore.