Watching movies as a kid i would always notice that the kids on school scenarios never wrote with cursive letter, but rather with print letter (it took me a while to figure out how exactly this kind of handwritting is called), That was really weird, i used to think that it was a movie thing, maybe the character didn't really wrote that and it was really printed on paper and/or it was like that so the telespectator could read without much trouble, and this theory really made sense to me and i carried on because of course they write cursive in real life.
That theory started to fade away when i got Diary of a Wimpy Kid on my hands, at somepoint, in one of the books, Greg says that his cursive handwritting assistant (something on this tone) wouldn't do his essays anymore or moved out, something like this, thing is he said that he couldn't write in cursive and one of his teachers wouldn't accept his essays written in print letter. "Wait hold on but this isn't a mov-- there's no way, that's impossible", i was really questioning my own reality like shit, other cultures have different ways of writting too??? What the fuck.
Around here, since kindergarten, we learn to write with cursive letters. We'd use notebooks like this to exercise our handwritting:
Have you guys ever used this?
My handwriting for a long time sucked ass, it started to get better around two years ago, i had times where i tried to switch to print letter so it would look less ugly, but it just got even uglier, so i switched back.
I had this one friend on 1st year of elementary school who couldn't write with cursive, so he would just write with print letter. Our teacher noticed it and explained to him why he should start to write with cursive; because is more elegant, because we would write faster etc etc, and so he spent most of the month's Portuguese class exercising his handwritting in pages and more pages like the one above.
I noticed that my brother have a mix of print and cursive, and he said that some of his friends also write with print letter. I found it funny because it seems that teachers are caring less and less on the aesthetic and focusing more on the content and absorption of the student... or maybe they just don't care enough to pay attention to this. On the other hand, since i got in middle school a bunch of kids - primally girls - started with the lettering thing, where they make those huge, pretty cursive letters on top of the page to get their attentions when looking for notes and overall beauty. I always found this pretty cool.
I've seen some boomers making fun of millenials and gen z's for their handwritting, which is generally not cursive it seems. Shit is funny.
How's your relationship with handwritting? Do you use cursive or print? Do you speak a language that it's kinda of inefficient to write with cursive letters? Imma leave a picture of my notebook with a phrase and a few words written both in english and portuguese, my main language. Post it too let's see these bad boys.
Kinda shady but here it is:
I really like when there's two Ts in english, so i can cross both of them with one single line, and like the "ção" in portuguese. Handwritting is cool.
(The words written in portuguese and english does not have any correlation, except fot the phrases which are basically the same)
That theory started to fade away when i got Diary of a Wimpy Kid on my hands, at somepoint, in one of the books, Greg says that his cursive handwritting assistant (something on this tone) wouldn't do his essays anymore or moved out, something like this, thing is he said that he couldn't write in cursive and one of his teachers wouldn't accept his essays written in print letter. "Wait hold on but this isn't a mov-- there's no way, that's impossible", i was really questioning my own reality like shit, other cultures have different ways of writting too??? What the fuck.
Around here, since kindergarten, we learn to write with cursive letters. We'd use notebooks like this to exercise our handwritting:
Have you guys ever used this?
My handwriting for a long time sucked ass, it started to get better around two years ago, i had times where i tried to switch to print letter so it would look less ugly, but it just got even uglier, so i switched back.
I had this one friend on 1st year of elementary school who couldn't write with cursive, so he would just write with print letter. Our teacher noticed it and explained to him why he should start to write with cursive; because is more elegant, because we would write faster etc etc, and so he spent most of the month's Portuguese class exercising his handwritting in pages and more pages like the one above.
I noticed that my brother have a mix of print and cursive, and he said that some of his friends also write with print letter. I found it funny because it seems that teachers are caring less and less on the aesthetic and focusing more on the content and absorption of the student... or maybe they just don't care enough to pay attention to this. On the other hand, since i got in middle school a bunch of kids - primally girls - started with the lettering thing, where they make those huge, pretty cursive letters on top of the page to get their attentions when looking for notes and overall beauty. I always found this pretty cool.
I've seen some boomers making fun of millenials and gen z's for their handwritting, which is generally not cursive it seems. Shit is funny.
How's your relationship with handwritting? Do you use cursive or print? Do you speak a language that it's kinda of inefficient to write with cursive letters? Imma leave a picture of my notebook with a phrase and a few words written both in english and portuguese, my main language. Post it too let's see these bad boys.
Kinda shady but here it is:
I really like when there's two Ts in english, so i can cross both of them with one single line, and like the "ção" in portuguese. Handwritting is cool.
(The words written in portuguese and english does not have any correlation, except fot the phrases which are basically the same)
