Re: xkcd: Cursive Letters

On Tue, 30 Apr 2024 00:12:37 -0700, Your Name wrote:

On 2024-04-30 06:50:32 +0000, Pluted Pup said:

On Thu, 25 Apr 2024 08:46:56 -0700, Paul S Person wrote:

On Wed, 24 Apr 2024 11:39:04 -0700, BCFD 36<bcfd36@cruzio.com>  wrote:

On 4/24/24 02:32, D wrote:

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On Tue, 23 Apr 2024, Pluted Pup wrote:

On Thu, 28 Mar 2024 17:23:13 -0700, Your Name wrote:

On 2024-03-28 20:25:56 +0000, Lynn McGuire said:

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xkcd: Cursive Letters
https://xkcd.com/2912/
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Is there anything that Randall cannot graph ?
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My 82 year old mother is the only person that I know that still writes
in cursive. It is almost illegible due to slant and compactness but I
love her for it anyway.
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Explained at:
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2912:_Cursive_Letters
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Lynn

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I have three handwriting styles:
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Cursive writing used for things like greetings cards and my signature.
It's pretty easy to read.
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Non-cursive (aka printing or block letters) used for important
documents, such as legal or banking forms, school / university exams,
etc., that needs to be easily readable by anyone.
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And the third one is a semi-mixture of the two, which I use when
writing hurried notes for myself.

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Block letters, so that's what it's called. Using the
term "printed" is too confusing nowadays,
as in the question "is it handwritten or printed?".
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I use block letters because I want to be able to
read back what I wrote. I don't smear my characters
writing down a phone number, so I wouldn't
also mess up my readability by using cursive for words.
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Then again the term "block letters" imply someone
who writes in all capitals.
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It's all too ambiguous.

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No, block letters are letter constructed from building blocks.
Obviously! ;)

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Wrong, banana breath! Block letters are the letters found on the sides
of the cubical wood blocks we played with as children.

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I was going to suggest "block printing", but it turns out that that
has a completely different meaning to what is wanted here.
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Although I suppose those blocks, combined with mommy's black ink,
could be used for "block printing" ...

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Looks like I have to answer the question "written or printed?"
as:
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"Written down on paper but not cursive".

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"Cursive" and "non-cursive" ... or maybe "cursive" and "sans cursive". ;-)

Too ambiguous! The cursive may have been printed by
a computer!