You got me writing ‘vacuum’ and ‘anniversary’ in cursive, and got so conscious about how I write it that my speed crawled to a stop and my handwriting got even worse than what I started with, lol!
In casual writing, I separate out v, w and other letters that are trickier to write in full cursive. Same goes with t, i, j so that I can do the crosses and dots before moving on.
All those seems to have done the job of making my cursive a bit easier to read. All hell breaks loose when I need to write really fast though.
Thanks for the pangrams. One problem I have with pangrams is that for demonstrating cursive writing, you also have to take into consideration how the letters join up. The letters would have a slightly different shape depending on the letters adjacent to them. In a way, it’s like the Arabic script.
There’s probably pan… ligature-grams. Some hideous paragraph that concisely demonstrates every valid pair. Ballpark, every letter has to appear once with a different letter after it, so an example would be on the order of one thousand characters.
That feels alarmingly like a programming puzzle for this late at night.
Yeah, it is. I’m kinda glad it’s in the middle of the day here where I live. I wouldn’t want to be up at night teasing this horrible, horrible combinatorics puzzle in bed.
I grew up at a time when cursive is a requirement–not just for one class, but for all classes in primary school. I remember our teachers checking our notebooks and making comments on our handwriting. All our compositions and essays were required to be in cursive, and they check for penmanship, keeping margins and all that. It was a whole lot of effort for something that I rarely get to use in higher levels. I switched to print in HS, when cursive is no longer required.
Vacuum is another good one, or anniversary.
You got me writing ‘vacuum’ and ‘anniversary’ in cursive, and got so conscious about how I write it that my speed crawled to a stop and my handwriting got even worse than what I started with, lol!
In casual writing, I separate out
v,wand other letters that are trickier to write in full cursive. Same goes witht,i,jso that I can do the crosses and dots before moving on.All those seems to have done the job of making my cursive a bit easier to read. All hell breaks loose when I need to write really fast though.
EDIT: stupid formatting, lol!
Irreverence.
I tried writing them so that I can post this. I might have failed in making them both cursive and legible, lol!
That very last line is my attempt at writing at speed. 😅
Some additional fun pangrams, for this purpose or otherwise:
Fix problem quickly with galvanized jets.
Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs.
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.
Thanks for the pangrams. One problem I have with pangrams is that for demonstrating cursive writing, you also have to take into consideration how the letters join up. The letters would have a slightly different shape depending on the letters adjacent to them. In a way, it’s like the Arabic script.
There’s probably pan… ligature-grams. Some hideous paragraph that concisely demonstrates every valid pair. Ballpark, every letter has to appear once with a different letter after it, so an example would be on the order of one thousand characters.
That feels alarmingly like a programming puzzle for this late at night.
Yeah, it is. I’m kinda glad it’s in the middle of the day here where I live. I wouldn’t want to be up at night teasing this horrible, horrible combinatorics puzzle in bed.
Man, this must be what it feels like to be a teacher, all the time. It’s cool though, much better than I can manage.
Lol~ Thanks.
I grew up at a time when cursive is a requirement–not just for one class, but for all classes in primary school. I remember our teachers checking our notebooks and making comments on our handwriting. All our compositions and essays were required to be in cursive, and they check for penmanship, keeping margins and all that. It was a whole lot of effort for something that I rarely get to use in higher levels. I switched to print in HS, when cursive is no longer required.
I didn’t mean the word, but the way some people write the letters ‘m’ and ‘n’ with the bows downwards, so that the look really similar to ‘w’ and ‘u’.
Oh, yeah! Sometimes context helps, but if you can’t even read a single word, you’re just out of luck!