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Worth remembering that cursive, as taught in America, is different than "joined writing" as taught in the UK. The American version is a bit harder to read and write, particularly the lower case 's' upper-case 'q' and both cases of 'z'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cursive#/media/File:Cursive.sv...

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http://www.cursivewriting.org/joined-up-handwriting.html

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Interesting. When I finally went to college after leaving high school, my handwriting started evolving into a joined style. I just figured that I was writing lazily. I suppose it is the path of least resistance as there aren't stops between letters but there isn't anything extra like there is in cursive.

In the old days, American cursive was defined by a periodic national competition. So letters would mutate over time as tastes changed. I remember upper-case Q got really weird (like a number 2) for a while. As a kid I just ignored it and did it my own way, which turns out folks could read anyway.

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I remember in grade school when we got the latest winning results, we had to write our capital Qs like a large number two. Because it 'looked prettier'. I refused; I closed the circle so it would look like a real letter Q.

my cursive (in the rare event that i write it these days) is really a hybrid of standard american cursive and print. I avoid the weird capitals in favor of the print versions that I then just join up with the cursive lowercase letters.

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