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I think handwriting or longhand can mean cursive - but also can mean by hand as opposed to by typewriter or computer...or spelled out entirely instead of by using shorthand. Sometimes it's clear by the context if a person means cursive/script instead of printed - sometimes not. So, you're both right! Usually I'd go with your wife's definition - as in "what does your hand writing say about you?" - those decipher script or print or a combo (like what I do).
Cursive and printing. In certain professions, cursive was frowned on. Architects and draftsmen, for example, were taught very precise rules for lettering, and going back to cursive for anything other than a signature was somewhat uncommon, because the rules of the lettering were so ingrained and going back and forth could contaminate a fine hand. On the other hand, my mother constantly taught grade school kids cursive, so she almost never printed anything but had flowing Palmer script.
Cursive uses different muscles than printing, which supposedly made writing long drafts easier. More important is that both develop different fine motor skills, which can stimulate development of different parts of the brain.
I think the word you might be searching for is "longhand." Longhand is considered cursive. A person can write a document in their own hand (handwriting) and have it be either script or printing. Something written longhand is cursive.
In school kids have "Handwriting" in class. Mostly when they are first starting to learn how to write in Kindergarten. They come home with the homework in "Handwriting" the letter "A" and "E" twelve dozen times. That's printing. When children get older the come home with cursive homework.
It is also used for "Handwriting Analysis" to see how a person writes there name whether it be in cursive or printing. Sometimes parents also give a "Handwritten note to the teacher".
I've always heard handwriting treated as a synonym for cursive growing up.
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Originally Posted by Be Happy 2
In school kids have "Handwriting" in class. Mostly when they are first starting to learn how to write in Kindergarten. They come home with the homework in "Handwriting" the letter "A" and "E" twelve dozen times. That's printing. When children get older the come home with cursive homework.
It is also used for "Handwriting Analysis" to see how a person writes there name whether it be in cursive or printing. Sometimes parents also give a "Handwritten note to the teacher".
I think it's anything written not just cursive.
Is it still common to teach kids both printing and cursive separately? An article I read a while ago that claimed teaching how to write in cursive was gradually going out of fashion.
I remember learning how to write in cursive some time in around Grade 1 or 2 during the early 90s.
I guess 'handwriting' is anything written by hand, as opposed to 'machinewriting', which is done for no other reason than to put something in simple readable form. That would also exclude things like calligraphy of sign painting.
Architects and draftsmen, for example, were taught very precise rules for lettering, and going back to cursive for anything other than a signature was somewhat uncommon, because the rules of the lettering were so ingrained and going back and forth could contaminate a fine hand.
It was mainly them in the time before computers ( all plans were done by hand). Its called Block Lettering. But now it has carried over into IT & Engineering. My writing is by this method due to the fact that globally english is taught that way. Cursive is unreadable in numerous countries. I don't know how many more years anything written by hand will exist, but it's death is near.
But back to the question at hand. Handwriting was cursive. Now its a mixture of everything including texting.
Thanks for the feedback. I'll have to settle for us both being "right".
Sounds like you've been married a while...
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Usually I'd go with your wife's definition - as in "what does your hand writing say about you?" - those decipher script or print or a combo (like what I do).
