On: Coding My Handwriting

[codingdave]

I'm wondering if cursive has been taught differently over the last few decades -- I was taught in the 70s, and at that time the instruction was that letters always start and end at the same point. That instruction clearly does not match up to the article or some comments, but rather than quibbling over which of us is correct, I'm more curious how the teaching may have changed over the years?

[monknomo → codingdave]

Yes, there are lots of different styles of cursive that have been taught at various times and places over the last 100 years

there's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spencerian_script and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaner-Bloser_(teaching_script) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer_Method and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%27Nealian

probably more.

[Aeolun → codingdave]

For an extra data point, I was taught in 1995.

Zaner-Bloser looks the closest to what I was taught, but is not a perfect match.

I think I suffer from ‘what I was taught is correct’ syndrome. Of course multiple ways can be correct, but it certainly does address the ‘not matching up’ point

[anamexis → codingdave]

In the 90s, I learned D'Nealian cursive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%27Nealian