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I would call Volbeat rock, but are they really metal?

Yes, I gathered. I was just wondering what the reason is for starting the x at the top, when it's easier, imo, to do as we do and start at the bottom.

No, I'm looking at the lowercase one. I don't understand why it comes in at bottom left but goes to top left before starting the letter.

Okay. And yeah, now that you mention it, I see that there are some tiny symbols there. 😅 It's funny how every time I hear about cursive writing online it always sounds as if it's one single thing that's the same everywhere, but it isn't. Oh, and also in our cursive, we don't go back to cross t's, because that's part of the character from the beginning.

But how do you you even write it when starting top left? Do you just write it as a backslash and then go back and add the second stroke once the word is finished? Or do you do some convoluted thing where you go in every direction while perfectly retracing your old strokes, to draw the whole thing in one go?

We were taught to start all capital letters at the top and all lowercase letters (as they need to be connected) in the bottom left (or just left for some like v, that don't really have a bottom left).

Particularly for x, they said we might as well learn to start x from bottom left when printing as well, because then it'll be consistent with the cursive, but I find that when given the choice, I'm more naturally drawn to go top left to bottom right and then top right to bottom left, so that's what I do when not writing cursive.

Edit: See my other comment for the cursive we were taught.

Oh, wtf! I just looked up US cursive, and that thing is apparently a G? The horror! That's certainly not what a cursive G looks like where I'm from. And your capital S just looks like a bigger lowercase s. Same with capital A. Why does it look like a lowercase a?!

Edit: The cursive we learned 30 years ago, for comparison: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Svssfb.jpg

I thought that was a lowercase f. Doesn't look anything like the cursive J we learned as kids.

There isn't one, is there?

Are either of them even in the picture? If so they definitely don't look like the ones I learned in school.

Looking at this, while there is some overlap, it's very apparent that US cursive is not the same as Swedish cursive. E.g. lower case x starting from the top? O_O

I was so close to buying PocketCasts' lifetime license, and then they switched to subscription-only. Still salty about it, because it's the best podcatcher by far!