Remember learning cursive penmanship in... what... 3rd grade? Letter after letter,
word after word until it was PERFECT. And I vividly recall using that special paper with all the guide lines on it... like training wheels for pencils. As the saying goes, "If you don't use it, you lose it". Other than my sginature, the last time I penned anything in cursive was the MCAS or my SATs circa 2003. My everyday signature is its own beast. Take a look.
Quick? Yes. Reproducible? Yes… to me. Cursive? Hardly.
Thus, I decided to test my cursive mettle and write out the cursive alphabet as best as I could from memory. Pinky promise I didn't cheat and look beforehand... wouldn't have been as good for content. Let's take a look at the whole shebang before we dive into the finer points...
Now here's what it should look like according to Google search "Traditional English cursive alphabet".
Not bad... not great. Let's break it down... DX style.
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First Row: Aka 'The D-saster'
It was going fine until I though the alphabet went ABCG instead of ABCD.
Second Row: A-H
Not too shabby. Might actually be my best row. Aside from some random subjective swirly swoopage on B, F, and H I think it looks pretty good. Tell you what though, I sat there thinking about C for a solid 2 minutes. It's so damn SIMPLE! No way is a cursive C that simple... has to be a random swirl somewhere. NOPE. If anything I over-did it.
Third Row: I to O like Idaho (no, YOU da ho!)
Not good. Left a hook off of I, uber-exaggerated swirls on K, L is too blocky. And Christ in a handbag what happened with M and N?!? How many humps does a camel have again? No excuse, I panicked. I don't have Parkinson's yet so I can't blame disease. My O looks like the start of a Clip-Art baby face.
Fourth Row: P-V Herman
Solid row. Pointy-ass V but I'll take it. Forgot the basket on the T like I did on the I, but again, I'll take that shit. This row is kind of like the team that makes the playoffs every year, but never wins the championship.
The Final Row: Dubya to Z
And one of life's great mysteries remains: How the F do you write a cursive Z. I feel you Billy. Rirruto.
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