That’s how you write it in cursive. You know for us that are old enough to remember what cursive was.
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Shanedino@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I write my "w"s like “uu”. With curves.
Etterra@lemmy.world 1 week ago
bstix@feddit.dk 1 week ago
“uu” ends on a down stroke. W ends on an upstroke, just like the difference between u and v.
Delphia@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Whats the keyboard shortcut for that?
sxan@midwest.social 1 week ago
Not just cursive; lower case “W” is often written uu. It just depends on the style of the writer.
RandomVideos@programming.dev 1 week ago
What do you mean “old enough to remember what cursive was”
How else are people writing
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Print, because we use ballpoints instead of fountain pens, unlike a Luddite.
Part of the reason cursive was dropped is that ballpoints require more hand pressure to write with- you’re gouging the paper to make the little ball roll.
Ballpoint pens are neater and simply better in most respects. The smooth gliding action in a fountain makes cursive easy, fast and with practice, elegant.
But you can’t do that for as long with print characters- it’ll cause hand cramps after a while.
Which, also, we now type or tap out our documents with print being adequate for everything except… uh… artistic expression?
Schools only have so much time to teach, including yet another form of handwriting means excluding other things.
deltapi@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Cursive was dropped because everyone uses computers and phones now, almost nobody bothers to write with a pen at all beyond signing their name on government or corporate documents
RandomVideos@programming.dev 1 week ago
It may be a country difference
Schools still teach cursive in mine
Schools in my country also recommend not using ballpoint pens
tfw_no_toiletpaper@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I don’t remember the last time I wrote anything by hand tbh
toynbee@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Must make it challenging to express “uwu.”
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Oh you’re gonna love learning how to write Russian cursive.
toynbee@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I’m going to?
It’s not impossible, but I don’t really plan to have to.
Agent641@lemmy.world 1 week ago
C’mon comrade, be a good sport. It’s a long train journey to gulag.
Texas_Hangover@lemy.lol 1 week ago
UuuU
JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 week ago
Zoidberg!
trainden@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
𝓊𝓌𝓊 :3