Regular cursive vs. Kurrent, an old german script that stopped being taught in the 1940s.
@behind_the_eight_ball woah! that's funky. what's the goal? is it like, to minimize the number of loops or otherwise circular shapes you have to make?
@vorboyvo Not sure whether there is a goal, but I do notice when writing it that there's less of the pen going back on itself than with the English letters, especially for a, o, d, s, or anything rounded. That's why it really does look like a bunch of scribbles when written quickly. I also suspect that it makes more sense for common letter groupings found in german like sch-. For instance, the c is hard to tell apart from the n, but in the context of sch- its obvious what it's meant to be.