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6974430 No.6974430 [Reply] [Original]

Is it true that americans don't write in cursive ? How the fuck do you guys even write ? Requesting a handwriting pic from an amerifat asap

>> No.6974618
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>> No.6974626

>>6974618
kek pynchon's handwriting is pretty shit tbh
Also, you should take it to /int/
This board was made for a different autism from what you're experiencing

>> No.6974644
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>>6974430
Here's some of my amerifat handwriting.
I originally took this for /int/.

Tbh though my handwriting is more shitty then most, as long as it is legible it is good enough for me.

>> No.6974650

>>6974644
fucking hell.
I meant /b/.
It was an international related thread however.

>> No.6974689

>>6974644
Thasom shit

>> No.6975154
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I might not be a very representative example.

>> No.6975325

>>6975154
What script is that?

>> No.6975383

>>6975154
What.

Is that Tolkien's tengwar?

>> No.6975625

>>6975154
I flipped this every way in gimp and figured out you're just autistic.

>> No.6975634

>>6975154
its upside down i cant read

>> No.6975657

>>6975154
Is this mirrored Greek?

>> No.6975658

>>6975625
>gimp
>not paint.net
Do you enjoy being fucked in your brain by gui?

>> No.6975675
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6975675

Delivering liberty script

>> No.6975908

>>6974430
I'm a bong and I don't write in cursive because my shit handwriting makes it completely illegible.

>> No.6976028

what exactly makes for "good" handwriting?

>> No.6976824
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6976824

No cursive, just funny printing.

>> No.6976985

>>6975625

Correct

>> No.6978001

>>6976824

I remember this from a handwriting thread a while back.

A little flourish-heavy and hard to read on occasion, but I can't help but love it.

>> No.6978014

>>6975325
>>6975383
>>6975634
>>6975657

Phonetic script for semi-English, born of paranoia and boredom.

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>>6975675
>mfw that looks like my handwriting

>> No.6978059

>>6978014
You invented your own script? Holy shit. I once wrote some stuff using arabic script phonetically for english, just to see if I could do it, but this is crazy.

>> No.6978108

>>6978014
Frank? Is that you?

>> No.6978120

>>6978059

I don't like people being able to read things that I write for my own purposes, so I don't use the Latin alphabet unless another person explicitly needs to read what I've written down.

I've developed a few other scripts that are more aesthetically pleasing and tightly structured, but they're impractically slow for everyday use.

>> No.6978155

>>6978108

Not even close.

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>>6974430
Missouri checking in

>> No.6978181

I'm American and I do write in cursive, but I rarely ever meet someone else who does. It depends entirely on how much your elementary school pushed it.

>> No.6978188
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Yes it is. I need to learn how to write cursive though, but my handwriting is atrocious.

>> No.6978189

>>6978014
Teach me your magic

>> No.6978198

>>6978188
why do you write in all caps

>> No.6978211

>>6976824
i love this, it's insane but i love it

>> No.6978215

>>6978181
this

I learned curseve in 2nd grade I think, but it never really came up again and I let it slide out of brain without a second thought and it never was relevant again, aside from a tirade from an old person who equated cursive with civilization, intelligence, and the foundation of the moral fabric of society, who took my apathetic stance towards it as a sign that truly my generation would surely be the one to destroy America once and for all.

>> No.6978221

>>6978215
>curseve

MY GOD THE OLD MAN WAS RIGHT

>> No.6978226

>>6978189

Teaching you the script would defeat the purpose of the script, but I can tell you how to approach the task of making your own.

Examine your language of choice- look at how the words are assembled, how the sounds are represented through letters and letter combinations, and so on. Then, ruthlessly criticize it. Anything that you think should be different, change it. Any inconsistencies or redundancies you see, eradicate them. Revise the script down to bare efficiency, and then add your own redundancies and flourishes to make it your own.

After that, practice with it until you start to accidentally use some of your own letters or sentence structure in normal writing.

>> No.6978262

>>6978198
I switched in my junior year of hs because my handwriting was so illegible
now I've forgotten entirely how to write normally

anyways it's not terribly uncommon, I think
none of my teachers never complained anyway

>> No.6978266

>>6978226
awesome. developing my own script seems like a great way to pass time; gonna work on this in earnest for the rest of my life as a personal project. thank you

>> No.6978284

>>6978262
I did the same thing. I was taught cursive, but not very well, so my writing was a complete mess. Always using pencil didn't help either. In high school I started writing like the girls in my class, all big rounded letters, purely so people could read it. It's stuck now.

>> No.6978303

>>6978215
Same here.

They made us use it constantly in 4th grade, but in 5th grade we just had computers to type everything.

I kind of wish I'd practiced more, I'd like a signature that isn't a messy scribble.

>> No.6978310
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>>6978226
Shit nigga.
I've done the same thing more or les.
At first I ended up replacing letter in english for other letter (A to O, B to P, etc) but I also ended up making up some grammar and pronunciation rules, along with eliminating some things that are not needed.

I made a basic rule page for the most basic of things.
I don't mind sharing it with /lit/ since I doubt I'll meet any of you IRL.

I also have my own script that goes along with this.
Which makes it even more un-understandable by others, but I can't really translate it into a PDF do the nature of making my own alphabet.

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>>6974430

>> No.6978393
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from my journal of rants that i started when i was an angsty teenager. this is one of the first pages.
my handwriting was/is terrible and i refuse to change.
my teachers loathed me in school, especially when they'd have "write as much as you can in a short time span" assignments where it would be almost unintelligible. i doubt most of them read more than a page.

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>>6978211
>>6978001
Thanks. I doodle in my margins, too, so my binders are quite a mess.

>> No.6978983

>>6978393
>When i was an angsty teenager
Your post doesn't seem to justify the use of past tense.

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>>6976824

>> No.6978999
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Believe it or not I've been complimented on my handwriting :^)

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>>6978987

>> No.6979013

>>6978999
You need to stop taking the things your mum says so seriously.

>> No.6979447

>>6975675
>>6978036
This also looks like my handwriting so please lean more towards this as being a proper example.

>> No.6979640

>>6975154
>that graph paper
>that autistic transcription of language
>made out of boredom
I knew a person exactly like this, one time.

>> No.6979652

>>6978310
>a = ayy

>> No.6979726

I had a professor that wrote beautiful cursive. How do I get good at cursive?

>> No.6979747
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6979747

tfw boring hand writing

>> No.6979788
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Well I gave it a go. sorry it's sideways

>> No.6979798

>>6979788
uh is that precalc?
come on now son

>> No.6979802

>>6979798
It's called being underage b& anon. Try it sometime.

>> No.6979803

>>6979788
>that first attempt on the left of the picture
gotta impress /lit/

>> No.6979808

>>6979803
ya got me

>> No.6979810

>>6979788
>that pen
so ur underage AND a faggot lol

>> No.6979813

>>6979810
:^)

>> No.6979947

>>6979798
At least he's doing homework.

All I did in high school was smoke weed and occasionally write a 95%+ paper to keep my grades afloat.

>> No.6980081

Amerilard here
No, we don't write everyday stuff in cursive, though we typically sign our names in cursive for important things. Cursive is taught at a fairly young age in schools, but then immediately dropped so most people forget all about it by the time they get to highschool.

I have noticed that people who write in cursive tend to write more neatly and legibly, but a lot of that just comes down to the individual. I have trash handwriting and it has to do more with a general spacial coordination issue than an actual lack of writing skills.

>> No.6980137
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West Coast checking in!
Only cursive I retained from a short lesson in second grade was how to sign my name.

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>>6974430
I am an American and I write in cursive primarily due to the pleasure my hand enjoys which print does not offer. I have a younger brother just entering middle school and their curriculum does not involve learning how to write in cursive; soon enough there will be a generation that sees it as no less foreign than the Arabic script.

>> No.6980151
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>mfw my elementary school required us to write everything in cursive after second grade or you'd get a 5 point deduction on the assignment
I went to elementary school 1998-2003 so it wasn't even that long ago. I still write everything in cursive to this day. I was shocked when I learned that not every school did this.

>> No.6980156

>>6980137
Where in California would you suggest I go? If I move back to America I would want to go to the West.

>> No.6980158

>>6980156
well, nowhere if u like water - most of us are making plans to gtfo if the drought persists.

>> No.6980194

>>6978393
>only the mot machiavellan survive

But this is true though. It's not angsty really.

>> No.6980205

>>6978393
... Thomas?

>> No.6980245

>>6978987
sir billi just made fedoras funny holy shit

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>>6974430
Lucky for you I was just playing La-mulana, so I have a hot fresh sample of my handwriting right next to me.

>> No.6980327
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America isn't a white country so of course they don't write in cursive any more.

>> No.6980336

Did anyone else never learn to print? I went to a weird private Christian school till 8th grade, and they only ever taught, and required cursive, since kindergarten. When I finally went to normal school, my teachers were annoyed at reading cursive, and made me print, which I had never practiced doing. I quit using cursive then, and now my print AND cursive are ugly as shit.

>> No.6981694

>>6980336
>When I finally went to normal school, my teachers were annoyed at reading cursive, and made me print
Fucking hacks.

>> No.6981707

>>6974430
I've been writing in cursive ever since I was in third grade. Can't be asked to take a pic of it however.

>> No.6981824

>>6980327
Most really advanced countries don't even need to learn handwriting anymore, they do it really early on then get you onto a keyboard. If you're learning Japanese or Chinese, most people will tell you you can learn to write if you like, but typing&texting skills are where it's at.

>> No.6981826

>>6981694
Back then, I just thought it was a conformity thing, like they wanted everybody writing the same way. Looking back, that was pretty strange. Why would a teacher have a problem with cursive? Mine was pretty good at that age.

>> No.6981840

>>6981826
Cursive is slightly more difficult to read than print. They'd rather have you change you handwriting, than make the effort to read your shit.

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>> No.6982348

>>6982314
if i had handwriting like that i'd kill myself too

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Not a burger, but sharing anyway. First is quick cursive for taking notes, second has some effort put into it.