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On 2024-04-30 09:16:43 +0000, D said:
> On Tue, 30 Apr 2024, Your Name wrote:
>> On 2024-04-30 06:50:32 +0000, Pluted Pup said:
>>> On Thu, 25 Apr 2024 08:46:56 -0700, Paul S Person wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 24 Apr 2024 11:39:04 -0700, BCFD 36<bcfd36@cruzio.com>  wrote:
>>>>> On 4/24/24 02:32, D wrote:
>>>>>> On Tue, 23 Apr 2024, Pluted Pup wrote:
>>>>>>> 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.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> No, block letters are letter constructed from building blocks.
>>>>>> Obviously! ;)
>>>>> 
>>>>> Wrong, banana breath! Block letters are the letters found on the sides
>>>>> of the cubical wood blocks we played with as children.
>>>> 
>>>> I was going to suggest "block printing", but it turns out that that
>>>> has a completely different meaning to what is wanted here.
>>>> 
>>>> Although I suppose those blocks, combined with mommy's black ink,
>>>> could be used for "block printing" ...
>>> 
>>> Looks like I have to answer the question "written or printed?"
>>> as:
>>> 
>>> "Written down on paper but not cursive".
>> 
>> "Cursive" and "non-cursive" ... or maybe "cursive" and "sans cursive".  ;-)
> 
> Always re-cursive!

That's when you have to keep going over your cursive writing more than 
once because the pen is running out of ink.  ;-)