Can someone explain why one cannot read cursive? It is just a tilted (sometimes fancy) font, what’s so hard about it?
Edit:
After being made aware by a fellow lemmy’er and googling it, it seems I confused cursive with italics, English is not my first language.
Though I learned cursive at school when I was 6 without realizing it is called cursive in English. It was part of the basic curriculum at that time, didn’t know this wasn’t a thing in other countries.
As someone who didn’t learn English as a first language, cursive is like another language to me. I don’t recognize half of the letters, and i never encountered it enough to properly learn it or have an incentive to learn it.
Seems though I learned cursive at school when I was 6 without realizing it is called cursive in English (English is not my first language) . Didn’t know this wasn’t a thing in other countries.
It is not a triangle, it is a slash with a hook like /J but combined. You never lift your pen of the paper to write a word. Dots and dashes are added after the word is finished.
I’m not so old and I have been taught writing and reading in cursive first, then the graphic evolution between cursive and block letters, so I could learn reading in block letters.
Can someone explain why one cannot read cursive? It is just a tilted (sometimes fancy) font, what’s so hard about it?
Edit: After being made aware by a fellow lemmy’er and googling it, it seems I confused cursive with italics, English is not my first language. Though I learned cursive at school when I was 6 without realizing it is called cursive in English. It was part of the basic curriculum at that time, didn’t know this wasn’t a thing in other countries.
There are some wonky letters, like capital G, S where if you never learned you wouldn’t know what you’re looking at.
As someone who didn’t learn English as a first language, cursive is like another language to me. I don’t recognize half of the letters, and i never encountered it enough to properly learn it or have an incentive to learn it.
[Serious]Can you read when you tilt a page 30° to the left? Or is it more about the font type than the font angle?
I think you’re thinking of italics, not cursive.
Your are correct, I looked up the difference.
Seems though I learned cursive at school when I was 6 without realizing it is called cursive in English (English is not my first language) . Didn’t know this wasn’t a thing in other countries.
I downvoted myself :D
It’s not though like why the fuck is s a triangle that’s the only thing I know about it and can’t read it
It is not a triangle, it is a slash with a hook like /J but combined. You never lift your pen of the paper to write a word. Dots and dashes are added after the word is finished.
I’m sorry how is
not a triangle
A tri-angle has three angles
Removed by mod
I’m not so old and I have been taught writing and reading in cursive first, then the graphic evolution between cursive and block letters, so I could learn reading in block letters.
I was similarly confused when I first learned about this. We were never taught to write in “print”, so handwriting - cursive - was the norm.