En réponse à kendra :
>Speaking as a fairly young person (18,) handwriting was hardly taught when I
>was young. We learned cursive in third grade and had to mime perfectly these
>endless sheets of letters, adn that was that. From then on we had to do
>things "in ink, in handwriting" (I don't know why handwriting = cursive, is
>this a prevalent US thing or just where I live? Anyway...) through about
>eighth grade, but we were never taught any more handwriting.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"Handwriting was hardly taught"? To me, it's identical to say "writing was
hardly taught". In France, when we learn to write, we learn handwriting! We
learn no other way to write than in cursive! And we learn that in first
primary school year, age 6 thus. Reading has usually been taught a year
before in the last year of kindergarten. But I fail to understand how you
can be taught to write otherwise...
>I'm curious though, what kind of drills did they make you do? Did you just
>have to copy things down perfectly or something?
Indeed. That's how we learn to write. Pages and pages of small and capital
cursive letters.
> Doing that in third grade
>sucked hardcore because we had to write so big and by that time I wanted to
>be writing on notebook paper, not the massive 1-inch high lines that they
>gave us.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! again!
We learn to write with normal lined paper, which is 8mm high per line in
France.
>I have a few of them. I want a really nice foutnain pen but I don't know
>where to find one. I'm impressed that you still have to learn to write with
>fountain pens in France, though I guess I shouldn't be. Man, I really want
>to go to France for some reason.
What I find really strange is that you don't learn to write cursive as your
first handwriting. Strange...
Christophe Grandsire.
http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr
You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.