Re: xkcd: Cursive Letters

On 2024-04-30 09:16:43 +0000, D said:

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

 xkcd: Cursive Letters
https://xkcd.com/2912/
 Is there anything that Randall cannot graph ?
 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.
 Explained at:
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2912:_Cursive_Letters
 Lynn

 I have three handwriting styles:
 Cursive writing used for things like greetings cards and my signature.
It's pretty easy to read.
 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.
 And the third one is a semi-mixture of the two, which I use when
writing hurried notes for myself.

 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?".
 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.
 Then again the term "block letters" imply someone
who writes in all capitals.
 It's all too ambiguous.

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

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

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

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

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

 Always re-cursive!

That's when you have to keep going over your cursive writing more than once because the pen is running out of ink.  ;-)