Re: OT More pens (was Re: Phoneme winnowing continues)

Quoting Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>:

> 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...
Does 'cursive' mean connected?

At any rate, I learnt writing in "block letters" (=unconnected letters that
look alot like printed letters) in year one, and _skrivstil_ (=connected
handwriting) in year three. For some reason, my particular school taught a
special "modernized" connected handwriting that looks like something between
printed letters and traditional Swedish handwriting. This version does not
appear to've been taught anywhere else, so in effect I've got a very "personal
handwriting now; it's generally considered aesthetically unappealing but quite
legible.

In the later school years, the teachers never cared whether you wrote
connectedly or not, which caused many to drop connected writing. I, in
contrast, essentially lost the ability to write unconnectedly - I later had to
relearn it for signature clarifications etc (y'know, when you have to
accompany your signature with your name in block letters so they know for
certain your name).

                                                       Andreas

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