https://xkcd.com/2912

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𝓘 𝓽𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓴 𝓬𝓪𝓹𝓲𝓽𝓪𝓵 𝓛 𝓲𝓼 𝓹𝓻𝓸𝓫𝓪𝓫𝓵𝔂 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓶𝓸𝓼𝓽 𝓯𝓾𝓷 𝓽𝓸 𝔀𝓻𝓲𝓽𝓮, 𝓽𝓱𝓸𝓾𝓰𝓱 𝓵𝓸𝔀𝓮𝓻𝓬𝓪𝓼𝓮 𝓺 𝓲𝓼 𝓪𝓵𝓼𝓸 𝓪 𝓼𝓽𝓻𝓸𝓷𝓰 𝓬𝓸𝓷𝓽𝓮𝓷𝓭𝓮𝓻.

  • megane-kun
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    2 months ago

    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.


    EDIT: stupid formatting, lol!

    • @peto
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      22 months ago

      Irreverence.

      • megane-kun
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        92 months ago

        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. 😅

        • @mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
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          32 months ago

          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.

          • megane-kun
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            12 months ago

            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.

            • @mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
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              22 months ago

              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.

              • megane-kun
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                12 months ago

                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.

        • @peto
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          22 months ago

          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.

          • megane-kun
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            22 months ago

            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.