Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Your Name Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips,rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: xkcd: Cursive Letters Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2024 13:23:13 +1300 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2024 00:23:14 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="9755e505bce71090eadef1b620ddf243"; logging-data="4096554"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+NdFF5Catp3brW6U0wHN4Mw7aDTXYHO5U=" User-Agent: Unison/2.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:/ZySfw1U1/YsmFuw8n4YpMkrkaY= Bytes: 1810 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.