Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters

• Paula_Tejando@lemmy.eco.br ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I was taught block lettering in technical drafting class, 8th grade. Cursive is a lettering specifically created to be easy to handwrite. It flows on paper, as opposed to the repetitive short strokes of block lettering.

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  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The easy they taught us cursive was the complete opposite of the intent of cursive. Rigidly proscribed characters with marks only for form, ignoring all function. It was agonizingly tedious and physically painful writing all of those nonsensical scrawls. I immediately switched back to my own chicken scratch after grade school because it was not only orders of magnitude faster, but at least didn’t make my hand painfully seize up into a claw.

    Decades later, as my handwriting evolved, a number of my own script letters began to resemble those wretched cursive runes, because I had apparently blindly stumbled upon the actual correct method for writing to flow from nib to parchment, as opposed to whatever those torturous rituals scarred me with as a child.

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    • Uebercomplicated@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The problem you describe is very real, and not just in the US or the UK, but in most of Europe as well. A big part of writing is how to actually write, not just the letters et al.

      I mean the literal way you move you arm, the angle you write at, how you hold you pen, etc.

      I didn’t learn any of that, and as an intensely dyslexic and left-handed individual, writing was extremely painful to me. That is, until 10th grade where I taught myself calligraphy.

      It turns out that, when learning calligraphy, you do learn how to write properly.

      After that, my handwriting in school (and for the rest of my life) became much better: I didn’t have hand-pain anymore, I didn’t smudge the ink, and, of course, my handwriting was very orderly and neat. Teachers even started commenting on it!

      Most notably for me though: writing became fun. For me, as a dyslexic, this literally felt revolutionary.

      Anyway, that is what I think they should teach in schools.

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