> I'm probably in the minority here, but I really
> dislike reading cursive writing, and I dislike
> using it even more -- at least the "traditional"
> cursive as it was taught in school. Sometimes I
> even screw up my own signature. I think that
> really what I use is a hybrid print-cursive
> style (the characters are upright, as printed
> characters, but sometimes flow together as in
> cursive). It gets me about 40-50 wpm, which is
> fast enough for practical purposes, but of
> course I slow down when someone will actually
> need to read what I wrote.

Yeah. That pretty much describes the way I write as well, as I may or may not have explained in the thread to which you linked. I honestly can't remember, and I'm not going to bother scouring that thread again, heh. But anyway, like you, I write in print, but connect the letters to create a semi-cursive effect; sometimes I even let a cursive letter into the mix (I seem especially prone to doing that with r's and s's).

And you bring up an interesting point that I don't think has been discussed so far: *reading* cursive. Although I can generally do so relatively easily (depending on how clear the writing is, of course), I find it much easier to read print as well. That even applies with fonts on the computer; I much prefer reading ordinary old serifs or sans serifs to Freestyle Scripts, Kaufmanns and the like. Heh.

-- codeman"and I type MUCH faster than I write, incidentally"38