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by mrg2k8 1365 days ago
Last week, during a meeting, I found myself scribbling some notes in cursive some 20 years later since having last used it, the only way we have been thought to write in school in an Eastern European country. I didn't know it was possible for anyone to not understand cursive or to forget it, even if one wanted it. This is definitely a thing just in the US.

I have been writing in block letters because my writing is tidier this way and have self-taught myself to do it.

Maybe this way less entitled peoples will have a better chance at making it, a sort of culling of the weak and unwilling.

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To the untrained eye, Cyrillic script feels like an endless line of Ms --impressive people can read it!

https://i.imgur.com/KEmhkXx.jpg

It's the lower case i, m, sh, t and p that all look similar in cursive. Here in print: и, м, ш, т, п (though t and p and t have little lines above them to differentiate them, and some people are taught to put a line under sh to distinguish it. At least it's like that in Serbian.
My boss writes English cursive like this. I'm always wondering, "Is that a 'uu', 'aa', 'wi', 'ler'…?", and et cetera because they all look almost exactly the same.