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I've heard some schools are reintroducing it now, but that doesn't help those that never learned. (startrek.website)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I mean, that was also what I learned in the UK. We used fountain pens specifically so that it had to be no upstrokes, but the alphabet wasn't as complex and dated as some people are posting examples of.

I think "joined up" is just the trashy crude way we call it! I think I had heard of the band Cursive before knowing what it was.