• snooggums
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      452 days ago

      Nope.

      Legibility > speed.

      • @[email protected]
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        272 days ago

        Only if you suck at cursive. Depending on how much effort I put in, both my cursive and print writing can look nice, but writing cursive causes mess stress over time. If I’m just jotting a quick note it doesn’t matter and both look like ass, but if I’m taking notes for lecture or in a D&D campaign or something like that, where I’m writing a bunch over an hour or more, I see a huge drop off in quality after a bit of time when writing print.

        • @Duamerthrax
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          102 days ago

          My mother sucks at cursive then. I have to constantly call her when I do her shopping. If it was for personal notes, it wouldn’t matter, but if you’re communicating with other people, it’s terrible.

        • snooggums
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          82 days ago

          Only if you suck at cursive.

          I do, because despite all the work I put into it the letters all blur together. I forget a hump or two whem writing something like communication in cursive, and no amount of practice made a difference.

          I can generally read poorly written cursive more easily than well done cusrive because I recognize which letters tend to be skewed. My father in laws lwriting was easier for me to read as his arthritis got worse!

          But printed letters are always easier to read, which is why nobody uses cursive fonts when they type something up.

      • @thejoker954
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        112 days ago

        Meh, my handwriting sucks either way…

      • @corroded
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        62 days ago

        I can read my own cursive just fine, and it’s way easier to write than printing each letter individually.

      • @[email protected]
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        22 days ago

        Maybe in some cases, I remember struggling in school to write fast enough to finish exams in time and also keep it readable.

      • @Acters
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        12 days ago

        I know this a quality vs quantity issue. Yet there are doctors who write scribbles and considered a real writing style. Lookup Gregg shorthand

        • @candybrie
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          21 day ago

          I think the part of the intention there is obscuring what they’re writing to some degree.

      • @Maggoty
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        32 days ago

        Once you’re good at it you can have both…

        • snooggums
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          Nah, even my wife’s well written cursive is hard for me to read because similar letters like n, m, u, and r tend to blemd together for me.

          Hell, I find all cursive fonts difficult to read and those are extremely consistent.

        • @Coreidan
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          12 days ago

          No matter how you slice and dice it cursive is harder to read than print.

          • @Maggoty
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            12 days ago

            Not necessarily, unless you just never learned it.

            • @Coreidan
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              32 days ago

              Well if you’ve never learned it then you won’t be able to read it at all.

              There is nothing controversial here. It’s harder to read than print. Which is exactly why you don’t see cursive fonts.

                • @Coreidan
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                  22 days ago

                  Oh wow. You got me champ. You found a font in the world.

                  Now tell me this. When was the last time you saw someone use cursive fonts? Read any papers lately with cursive font? Any articles using the font? Anything at all?

                  Nope. Didn’t think so.

                  I learned cursive and school and it’s still harder to read than print. Is it impossible? No. But it’s definitely not the same as reading print. It doesn’t take a genius to understand this.

    • @Droggelbecher
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      92 days ago

      It’s the only thing that keeps my chronic tendinitis from making me unable to write altogether