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On Thu, 28 Mar 2024 17:23:13 -0700, Your Name wrote:

> On 2024-03-28 20:25:56 +0000, Lynn McGuire said:
> >
> > xkcd: Cursive Letters
> > https://xkcd.com/2912/
> >
> > Is there anything that Randall cannot graph ?
> >
> > My 82 year old mother is the only person that I know that still writes
> > in cursive. It is almost illegible due to slant and compactness but I
> > love her for it anyway.
> >
> > Explained at:
> > https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2912:_Cursive_Letters
> >
> > Lynn
>
> I have three handwriting styles:
>
> Cursive writing used for things like greetings cards and my signature.
> It's pretty easy to read.
>
> Non-cursive (aka printing or block letters) used for important
> documents, such as legal or banking forms, school / university exams,
> etc., that needs to be easily readable by anyone.
>
> And the third one is a semi-mixture of the two, which I use when
> writing hurried notes for myself.

Block letters, so that's what it's called. Using the
term "printed" is too confusing nowadays,
as in the question "is it handwritten or printed?".

I use block letters because I want to be able to
read back what I wrote. I don't smear my characters
writing down a phone number, so I wouldn't
also mess up my readability by using cursive for words.

Then again the term "block letters" imply someone
who writes in all capitals.

It's all too ambiguous.