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?

  • furry toaster@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 days ago

    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

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      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.