Comment by sensanaty
1 year ago
I had this issue growing up, except it was cyrillic. Reading cursive cyrillic is its own beast of an undertaking, but writing it is hell on earth and I wouldn't wish it upon by greatest enemy. They'd even refuse to grade anything handed in in non-cursive, which never made sense to me because doesn't it fucking suck to attempt to grade those papers when it's all just very long squiggles? Seriously the letters šćčti and Dž all look identical in cursive, and many words have a lot of words have these letters one after the other so you just end up with loop after loop, it's ridiculous
Fast forward a decade and I can barely read cursive cyrillic anymore and I definitely can't write in cursive, thank god.
Did you also have to use a fountain pen for that? I did. It was a nightmare, considering we could allow only the cheap pens and I’m not even sure if there were any better ones in regular stores.
For completely unrelated reasons though I had been practicing my handwriting some time ago. I greatly improved in it and even developed several different handwritings. It’s fun.