myrmepropagandistCan you write in cursive?
| Yes, and often do! | |
| Technically, yes. But I don't. | |
| Only my name, so not really. | |
| Not at all |
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Regardless if it's cursive or not, do you like your handwriting?
| Yes! Love to write by hand in my own way. | |
| I have not ever thought about this? | |
| Always feel a little awkward about it. | |
| Other |
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Michael BuschFor me; this depends on the language.
English and French and Spanish I can do fine.
German and Russian cursive I never learned well enough to read or write. And Japanese and Chinese I have never attempted.
The Tiller đ@michael_w_busch @futurebird
... but we write German in the same cursive (set of letters) as other western European languages, no?
... but we write German in the same cursive (set of letters) as other western European languages, no?
I understood that there are three different varieties of German cursive in use?
Which was not so confusing as Russian cursive where half a dozen letters all look very similar to one another.
Juni 
:3@michael_w_busch Yes. Theres the normal cursive. Then there used to be a more unique german cursive(SĂźtterlinschrift). But if I remember correctly the Nazis banned it and people didnt bother to go back to it after 1945.
There is also Stenografie, which is an abriviated handwriting thing that some old people still know how to do. It was used until the computer age.
There is also Stenografie, which is an abriviated handwriting thing that some old people still know how to do. It was used until the computer age.
@michael_w_busch @futurebird
Maybe Iâm not clear what the word âcursiveâ means here. Is it more than just âhandwritingâ?
Sure, the specific style of the letters that are taught in primary school will change over the decades. Is that what you mean with âthree different setsâ?
(SĂźtterlin and Kurzschrift [stenography] are entirely historical, as said above)
Cursive here is a writing style where the letters are joined to one another, contrasted to block printing where they are separated. Cursive is faster, but it requires changing the forms of the letters - and there is no single way to do that, even with languages that use the same alphabet.
I know only a very little German and less Russian, so I just remain confused.