Today's new word is........

[tikay]

Well, new to me.


curvise

Joined up handwriting, in other words.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cursive

I only became aware as I read a piece that stated that Finland will no longer be teaching curvise handwriting in schools.





It was only when cogitating this that it occurred to me that on the internet, where the vast majority of our writing takes place, we don't or can't do joined up - curvise - writing.

I guess joined up writing will soon be history.

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I can't read joined up writing.

[tikay]

I can't read joined up writing.

I don't recall learning to read it. I assume we learn it by writing it.

Presumably you can't do joined up writing, then? Except as a signature?

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I can't read joined up writing.

I don't recall learning to read it. I assume we learn it by writing it.

Presumably you can't do joined up writing, then? Except as a signature?

I can do it in a child -like spidery scrawl. If I wrote myself a note and looked at it half an hour later, I would struggle to decipher it. Actually, the only way I can hand-write with any sort of fluidity or legibility is in block capitals.

By the age of about 5 I could read, and by the time I was nine or ten I was reading something in the order of five books a week, but I had no reason to write.

I never actually learned to write until I got a laptop and I never wrote with any regularity until I started posting on blonde.

[Tal]

Well, new to me.


curvise

Joined up handwriting, in other words.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cursive

I only became aware as I read a piece that stated that Finland will no longer be teaching curvise handwriting in schools.





It was only when cogitating this that it occurred to me that on the internet, where the vast majority of our writing takes place, we don't or can't do joined up - curvise - writing.

I guess joined up writing will soon be history.

Bold part quoted for truth.

[tikay]

^^^^^

Bugger.

Told you it was a new word to me.


That got the thread off to a good start then.

[celtic]

[Redsgirl]

Does anybody else find that if they learn a word that is totally new to them suddenly it pops up everywhere, people are saying it on the telly and the radio or it's leaping out at you from books and magazines, even if it's something really obscure.
Or is that just me.

[mulhuzz]

Does anybody else find that if they learn a word that is totally new to them suddenly it pops up everywhere, people are saying it on the telly and the radio or it's leaping out at you from books and magazines, even if it's something really obscure.
Or is that just me.

That's a bias in your brain at work, so yeah, it happens to everyone!

[rfgqqabc]

I really struggle to print when writing (non cursive) It was fairly drilled into me at school that cursive was the way to go.

[Knottikay]

A quick hand writing story.

I had been living in Wales for about 3 years due to my Dad's work (Quantity Surveyor). I had been doing very well in my academic work and was just coming up to do my 11 plus exam to gain entry into the local Grammar School. I however, moved back to England before I had chance to sit the exam.

What a difference the now English school system was. I was instructed NOT to use my black ink italic pen anymore and revert back to biro/and or a pencil to keep in line with the rest of the class room. I was also advised to go back to printing my words as 'joined up' writing had not really been introduced at this last year of primary school which I was put in. I did suffer with these decisions. It would be a few months of this going backwards which now influences how I write today. Folk say it should be like riding a bike, but for the life of me I have never gone back to being a neat writer. In fact, I would admit my writing is absolutely atrocious at times and barely readable.

I had won hand writing competitions  when younger, but since that move from the Welsh system to the English system, I write like a drunk doctor on a roller coaster. Thankfully, it is the age of the internet now with emails and forums , rather than the written word.

[DMorgan]

One of my uni housemates would only ever write in block capitals. Sign of the devil according to him but he was otherwise very normal.