Uppercase Cursive Letters

Tropic_Al · Post by **Tropic_Al** » January 8, 2007 2:44 am

I never got a grip on penmanship
Could never make the small ";L's"; flow .....

I went to Catholic school for 12 years. There are 2 kinds of handwriting that comes from that, a beautiful Palmer cursive or mine, chicken scratch. At least I can type & spell.

Dally · Post by **Dally** » January 8, 2007 2:56 am

springparrot wrote:
Dally wrote:
springparrot wrote:
SMLCHNG wrote:All my writing is nearly like the 'standard' letters that you posted, Molly. All but the Q..
Even when I was a little kid in grade school, I thought the Q looking like a 2 was stupid
I thought the same thing, Mol. I never could understand why the Q had to look like a 2! Needless to say, I never wrote it like that!

I have a pretty handwriting, when I take the time....although most of the time some words start out in print and end up in cursive.
Yup--most of the letters look similar to the printed ones, but the Q???
Whose idea was that?

I bet it was a man!!!!

Sidew13 · Post by **Sidew13** » January 8, 2007 5:05 am

I thought I knew, thank god 99.99999% of everything is on computer

The Q/2 is stupid

and we all knew the Z was strange

fruityparrothead · Post by **fruityparrothead** » January 8, 2007 8:36 am

YES! I have a degree in Elementary Education....

Now I DO have to admit....I don't always USE the correct form whenI write.

Because I decided to go into Social Work, instead of teaching.

LIPH · Post by **LIPH** » January 8, 2007 8:41 am

I voted "who cares". I can read my handwriting, so can just about everybody else. That's all that matters.

chippewa · Post by **chippewa** » January 8, 2007 8:50 am

Tiki Bar wrote:For some reason, my handwriting is a cursive / print combo... but relatively neat if I try.

And some of my favorite people write in all caps!

Mrs. Chip is required to teach her third graders D'Nealian style printing, which is like this. It's a printing style which is supposed to make an easier transition to cursive. Of course, it's also a copywrited style, so somebody (Mr. D'Nealian?) is making $$ from the books, computer fonts, etc.

Dezdmona · Post by **Dezdmona** » January 8, 2007 9:07 am

I've always had excellent penmanship, but my son's is atrocious.
We've been practicing.

Thanks for the info on the D'nealian type of writing, that's kinda how I've been teaching him.

comemonday · Post by **comemonday** » January 8, 2007 9:23 am

I remember how to do it (and weird as this is, I have done it w/in the past year or two just to see!), but I'm with the Q-2 haters!

buffettbride · Post by **buffettbride** » January 8, 2007 9:48 am

Yes! I do. I don't always use the correct ones with the way I write, but I know how to do them all. I still have issues with "S"--I always seem to turn it into a treble-clef.

LIPH · Post by **LIPH** » January 8, 2007 10:16 am

comemonday wrote:I remember how to do it

As old as I am, I remember how to do it too.

alphabits · Post by **alphabits** » January 8, 2007 11:00 am

I'm shocked that they're encouraging third graders to curse .... particularly in upper case.

comemonday · Post by **comemonday** » January 8, 2007 11:03 am

Ours were also a little "loopier" than those pictured.... like our upper case "C" would begin with a loop...

chippewa · Post by **chippewa** » January 8, 2007 11:09 am

alphabits wrote:I'm shocked that they're encouraging third graders to curse .... particularly in upper case.

Yes, usually it's just the teachers.

why don't we get lunch in school...

RinglingRingling · Post by **RinglingRingling** » January 8, 2007 11:11 am

alphabits wrote:I'm shocked that they're encouraging third graders to curse .... particularly in upper case.

I think Red Stripe needed little or no m(*$*&%(#^@*in' encouragement...

RinglingRingling · Post by **RinglingRingling** » January 8, 2007 11:13 am

I use cursive for addressing cards, and messages inside them. If I am just writing, it's print. I need to practice a bit on the cursive, but my handwriting is still legible.

alphabits · Post by **alphabits** » January 8, 2007 11:15 am

RinglingRingling wrote:
alphabits wrote:I'm shocked that they're encouraging third graders to curse .... particularly in upper case.
I think Red Stripe needed little or no m(*$*&%(#^@*in' encouragement...

Red Stripe needs a special font.

carolinagirl · Post by **carolinagirl** » January 8, 2007 11:54 am

VanillaGrl wrote:
springparrot wrote:
SMLCHNG wrote:All my writing is nearly like the 'standard' letters that you posted, Molly. All but the Q..
Even when I was a little kid in grade school, I thought the Q looking like a 2 was stupid
LOL...me too!

I have never seen anyone outside of school write a Q like that! How do you get things like that changed?

The Z, T and F are just wacked, too.

Burny Charles · Post by **Burny Charles** » January 8, 2007 2:34 pm

I think the Z should be the one that looks like a 2. Instead, the cursive Z looks like a 3.

When I was learning cursive, I used to practice the lowercase r for hours, so in my writing, I do have a very attractive lowercase r.

carolinagirl · Post by **carolinagirl** » January 8, 2007 2:45 pm

My son had to learn cursive in third grade, then in fourth and ever since they let them print, so what's the point??? His handwriting is atrocious!

Burny Charles · Post by **Burny Charles** » January 8, 2007 2:57 pm

carolinagirl wrote:My son had to learn cursive in third grade, then in fourth and ever since they let them print, so what's the point??? His handwriting is atrocious!

You are not alone in the crtiticism of requiring cursive. I wasnt really aware of this until reading the wikipedia article.

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

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Uppercase Cursive Letters

Do you know how all of the uppercase letters should be written in cursive?