I know that varies by region, but schoolchildren are generally taught cursive as a faster way to write. It already requires some memorisation with some glyphs being different from block letters. Why not make an additional step and completely replace it with shorthand, making writing an order of magnitude faster?
Short hand is “journalist writing”, where a series of kind-of-scribbles sort of refer to real words, so you can take down someone’s speech in real time in an abbreviated form, then rebuild it “back at the office” and horribly misquote them.
shorthand (wiki link)
What actually is cursive? I only know it as a “thing that makes some Internet people angry on Facebook”.
cursive is something americans dont understand
jokes aside is style of writting that actually comes “normal” writting, after centuries of attemptinf to write faster people started to write whole words in one stroke and letter began to change their forms to be easy to write in this style, it naturally evolved and somewhat standardized
I googled it… and it’s just the American word for “joined-up writing”, like you do in primary school.
It’s literally just that. All those whingeing posts on social media… they were crying about joined-up writing. Hahahahaha. What an insane bunch of babies.
[Edit] when I say “googled”, I of course mean I googled it with duckduckgo, or duckduckgoed it or whatever.
At least with cursive you have a chance at deciphering it. Shorthand looks like gibberish.