You have to be a certain age to get THIS

[Ptah]

[patricia92243]

1. I'm old and I don't get it at all?????

[mrmpa]

2. Cursive............

they don't teach penmanship in schools anymore.

[patricia92243]

9. Oh! I thought you meant there was some sort of joke. I knew they had

thought about not teaching cursive, but I didn't know it was a done deed. I'm not sure what I think about it. Seems like they might need it at least some times.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. I remember that diagram very well.

It was posted above the blackboard. We had to learn to write cursive in that very exact way, and I still remember that lined paper with the dashed lines between the solid lines so you could line up the letters correctly. My handwriting doesn't look at all like that any more (though I still write cursive when I'm not using a computer).

[blue neen]

4. Ah, yes. A lost art.

I loved it and still strive to have good handwriting.

[progressoid]

5. That's a slightly different style than I remember.

Also never understood why a 'Q' looked like a '2'.

[TexasBushwhacker]

6. Yeah, I dropped that from my handwriting pretty quick

My "Q" is just a bigger version of my lower case "q". I think it's a shame they don't teach it anymore. You handwriting can be a form of self expression.

[Wolf Frankula]

12. I always pronounced the word Queen

Twoeen because of that 2. I dropped it after third grade and used a Q.

Wolf

[Thor_MN]

15. Hated the Q and Z from second grade.

It's a stupid font, there's no reason to mourn it. Spend the time teaching spelling and how to write, not what the writing should look like.

[Xipe Totec]

18. if you extend the neck of the 2 and close the loop you'll see the classic Q. nt

[WolverineDG]

24. Yeah, I stopped doing my Qs & Zs like that

once they stopped grading us on how closely we got our handwriting to copy those letters. Today, I make my F's backwards too. Much easier for me when writing down notes.

[trackfan]

30. There was a kid in our class whose last name was Quinn,

and I always thought of it as "Twin" because of the 2-looking Q.

[TreasonousBastard]

7. Most people have no idea how tough it was for us southpaws...

to get it right. Ours looked a little different than that one, but I could never get it right.

My father was left-handed, too, but grew up when schools whacked your left hand with a ruler when you wrote with it.

[dixiegrrrrl]

14. I am left handed, also. and would smear the pencil/ink writing as I wrote.

always came home from school with ink on the side of my left palm because I could not write over and around the top of paper like some left handers do.

Would have been fine if we wrote from right to left, but noooooooooo....

[raccoon]

23. That's a big 10-4. nt

[IcyPeas]

8. I loved Penmanship.

[Live and Learn]

10. Wow, I don't remember the Q or the Z.

I guess the memory is the first thing to go. Can't believe the hours we spent practicing those and the best I could ever get in handwriting was a 'C'. Yes, we were graded on it, in those days.

But i was a lefty, so that is my excuse. Then again, I was the only lefty in the class with handwriting nobody could read. I still can't read my own notes sometimes.

[petronius]

19. I realized that too! All along, I've thought that I still know cursive

But it turns out that what I still know is the cursive letters that are part of my signature, and maybe a few more.

But I'm gonna seize on that 'lefty' excuse too; it makes perfect sense!

[Recursion]

11. Bah. Real geezers remember Spencerian

[lunatica]

13. LOL!

[Xyzse]

21. Beautiful....

Then again I tend to use calligraphy.

[MH1]

16. I must be a little older. (Yikes!)

I remember being taught a difference between cursive numbers and block numbers. The numbers in your chart look like block numbers to me. The "cursive" numbers I remember were more like the numbers on the Spencerian chart posted previously on this thread. I still sometimes use the fancier style of numbers.

Of course now I cross my zeds and sevens, and slash my zeroes, which I picked up either in Europe or studying European languages. Or maybe programming. It's just so much easier to clearly distinguish zero from "Oh", etc.

[SusanCalvin]

17. I write cursive and was taught from that chart.

However, my note-taking writing bears only a passing resemblance. If someone else needs to be able to read it, I try to come a little closer.

[Generic Brad]

20. Looks like you ripped a page from my old Phonics book

Second grade, if I recall correctly.

Decades later and my handwriting has become illegible. But I can text like mad with one thumb.

[kentauros]

22. Eh. This writing-method is better:

[trof]

25. ThePalmer Method

Yep, that's what I learned.

[mainstreetonce]

26. I knew two methods

Palmer and Zaner Blosser
The only difference I remember is capital F.

I think this chart might be Zaner Blosser.

[mainstreetonce]

27. Ok you made me curious I googled Palmer

I think aim not just old enough, I am too old. This chart seems to be the newer version that replaced Palmer.

[Major Nikon]

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