Cursive script on lined paper
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hollydolly
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yes we did .... and I still write like this but not in the beautiful way that @horseless carriage , can
horseless carriage
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Aw Holly, what a lovely compliment, thank you. Whilst I still write rather than e-mail, I am useless with technology. My laptop and printer allows me to write, scan and reproduce on the laptop. Yeah right, Nelson will get his other eye back by the time I have learned to do that. Physics, never could comprehend physics. I can though, photograph my handwriting:
QuietByNature
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I remember that from junior school buy i took way more Mechanical and Drafting courses so I tend to print everything in capital letters.
Aunt Bea
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They were always stretched out along the top of the blackboard at the front of the classroom.
Lewkat
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We were taught the Palmer method in school. Even us southpaws had to keep that pen's tip over the shoulder as we wrote. Woe to those who went out of the lined paper.
Tommy
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We were taught it (minus the silly little curliques) but in the sciences writing in cursive was discouraged. Much was actually printed on quadrille paper. I rarely use cursive now.
RadishRose
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Writing in cursive seems faster than printing.
hollydolly
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I wonder why our teachers didn't do this... seems such a simple thing that would have been hugely helpful
Michael Z
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Had to quickly write in cursive when taking notes in college courses or filling up those dreaded “blue test books”. I don’t know how students these days can manage with their printing.
That might be true but my penmanship was never very good so my teachers always had problem reading what I wrote while in grade school. I was very happy when we started to have to type book reports and such in high school. The teachers didn't yell at me as much.
I can still do it, but it serves no purpose. I started printing in high school because science lab-books were to be printed. I had many science classes. The habit took hold. College wanted typewritten papers only so I started composing on the typewriter.
None of my children were taught cursive. Their signatures are some variation of printing.
None of my children were taught cursive. Their signatures are some variation of printing.
JustDave
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Printing was how I solved my inability to do cursive. I got it from my dad. He didn't teach me. I just liked the way his combination of script and print looked.
Paco Dennis
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I use mainly just printing not script. I sign important things by printing my name real fast and like a doctor does. 
stretch5881
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The nuns taught us cursive and made sure we did it well.
I had beautiful cursive handwriting when I was younger but at some point I simply started writing everything in block letters, all capitals as well, no lower case. Sadly even printing my writing has become terrible, I just don't have the smooth fluid motion needed any longer.
OneEyedDiva
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When we were in school, it was called penmanship. I got penmanship certificates because I had beautiful handwriting. I remember having to draw the circles and lines on lined paper to practice the technique. I got confused the first time I saw the term "cursive". Why did it change?
horseless carriage
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We were taught Italic Script, it's achieved with a broad nib fountain pen. How I managed to present my handwriting in an eloquent and artistic way was to make a series of ruled lines and boxed squares, in felt tip ink, marked out on a page that would go under the page that I was writing on. The felt tip ink was prominent enough to see through the blank sheet. In addition, for the finished piece that I was writing, I would first write it out, lightly, in pencil. That way details like the dot over the letters "i" and "j" were even and level, all the letters in each word were exactly the same height and each word was correctly distanced from the next, just as it would have been, typed.
jujube
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When my granddaughter was about 6, she came to me and said "Grandma, can you teach me curtsey?"
So, I showed her how to curtsey.
"NO! Not that! CURTSEY!"
I said, "Honey, that IS how you curtsey."
"NO! It's just like letters but it's kinda ROUND!"
Oh, cursive......
So, I showed her how to curtsey.
"NO! Not that! CURTSEY!"
I said, "Honey, that IS how you curtsey."
"NO! It's just like letters but it's kinda ROUND!"
Oh, cursive......
We had that thing with the letters stretched out over the blackboard, but not exactly the same. We didn't have curliques (hey, this was New Jersey!) or numbers, just the letters. Every classroom had them.
We still had them years later when I taught school in NJ. Probably by now, regular writing, particularly cursive, is a thing of the past. Even typing is nearly obsolete. We talk to our phones now. And let the robots guess what we are trying to say.
We still had them years later when I taught school in NJ. Probably by now, regular writing, particularly cursive, is a thing of the past. Even typing is nearly obsolete. We talk to our phones now. And let the robots guess what we are trying to say.