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| nafows Diglot Newbie Austria Joined 4617 days ago 11 posts - 14 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Mandarin, Lithuanian | Message 9 of 14 26 October 2011 at 11:30am | IP Logged | ||
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In school I learned this Austrian version of cursive and continued to use it for a long time. There are a few differences to some German ones, especially S and z were terrible for me as a child when deciphering letters of my German friend… Now my handwriting has some elements of the older version of Austrian cursive and of print forms in it.
(And it looks like this…) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Hampie Diglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 6453 days ago 625 posts - 1009 votes  Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: Latin, German, Mandarin | Message 10 of 14 26 October 2011 at 1:27pm | IP Logged | ||
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I always write cursive when I write by hand. I use the one I was taught in school with some minor adjustments. I do
the capital letters ad hoc, because I never remember how they were suppose to look so I just make some swirly looking letter when I need one. I tend to be inconsistent regarding the letter t, half of the time I use the one taught in school made by a single line, half the time I write an L, and then go back to add the horizontal stroke to make it a t. The letter Z is so rare in Swedish that few remember how it’s suppose to be written. In school we’re taught the 3- looking one. I sometimes use that, sometimes use the z-looking variant. Sometimes I do not bind s, b, j, y and g, sometimes I do. In Sweden we’re taught to bind them. X always confuse me. In my signature I use the long-s. I can also write Sütterlin and Kurrentschrift, because I like to know how to. Occasionally I do. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Jinx Triglot Senior Member Germany reverbnation.co Joined 5487 days ago 1085 posts - 1879 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Catalan, Dutch, Esperanto, Croatian, Serbian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish, Yiddish | Message 11 of 14 26 October 2011 at 2:55pm | IP Logged | ||
Here's a link to the "k" referenced by the OP.
Hampie, I'm so jealous, I would love to be able to write Sütterlin! It's still on my "to-do" list of random things to learn. :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Luai_lashire Diglot Senior Member United States luai-lashire.deviant Joined 5622 days ago 384 posts - 560 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto Studies: Japanese, French | Message 12 of 14 27 October 2011 at 2:42am | IP Logged | ||
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I learned cursive Z like this: http://www.janbrett.com/alphabet/cursive_alphabet_z_zebra.ht m
I always thought it was very strange looking, as it's so different from print z. I think my cursive looks atrocious and childish but strangely, I always get complimented on it. I always wanted to learn to do the extreme flourishes, perhaps one day I will. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Duke100782 Bilingual Diglot Senior Member Philippines https://talktagalog.Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4282 days ago 172 posts - 240 votes Speaks: English*, Tagalog* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin | Message 13 of 14 01 September 2012 at 5:57pm | IP Logged | ||
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I love writing in cursive. I would consider my handwriting as good, as I sometimes receive compliments on
it. But I wish I could show some samples of my father's perfect, elegant handwriting in cursive. Unfortunately, he now suffers from Parkinson's disease, so he has little control over his voluntary muscular movements, but still his cursive is impressive, provided he has had enough medication to calm his trembling. In one of the exams I took as part of my admission to my country's foreign service (where one has to have to pass a series of five exams given over the period of a year or two), we were instructed to write only in cursive. We had to write for three consecutive days. The examination periods would last from around eight in the morning until five in the afternoon. After three day of non-stop writing our hands felt quite cramped. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4501 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 14 of 14 01 September 2012 at 6:15pm | IP Logged | ||
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My handwriting is terrible but I almost always write in cursive unless block letters are
specifically requested (and I write even more cursive in Cyrillic) Edited by tarvos on 01 September 2012 at 6:15pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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