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[–] meliante@lemmy.world 75 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

The only cursive there is the couple of ii and the u. And the u is a stretch.

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Huh, I'm today learning calligraphy and cursive not synonyms

Though we don't really use the word cursive in the UK, we just call it handwriting or the slightly awkward "joined-up handwriting" if you need to be specific, though that's pretty much only with kids learning to write

[–] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Calligraphy just kind of means "pretty writing", it's not bound to a specific style. Edward Johnston used the term "penmanship" more often. Cursive means that the letters are formed in a "running" way, as opposed to the many times you have to lift the nib in some other styles. Even the romans had a cursive form of the letters we now refer to as "capitals" or "upper case".

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