This really is my first inkling that not everyone can do this these days. Obviously, modern education is going to hell in a handbasket, dadgummit.
Okay then, but it’s the same issue as with Arabic… aw, fuck it, I don’t feel like having this conversation anymore. I have other things to do.
exactly!!! i also love the russian k and use that. lower case d’s go russian they have a cool flying tail.
mine is a mix of both as well. i was that poor kid who had to go to russian school on saturdays, just like the girl in big fat greek wedding had to go to greek school.
i learned to write russian right handed. writing left handed in russian is very frowned on even to this day (over there). i learned english left handed in normal everyday american school. i switch-write left and right in english, but still only write russian right.
I personally enjoy writing capital Xs, Qs and Zs.
You said “Well, there are two ways to write Latin letters, right? Print and cursive. Cursive is often seen as sort of fancy and old-fashioned, to the extent that it’s often not even taught anymore.”
I’m saying, there’s a huge space between “fancy and old-fashioned” cursive writing and printing. That’s normal handwriting, which is a kind of cursive in that it is (mostly) joined-up, but it isn’t the “fancy and old-fashioned” kind.
Of course they’re hideous, they’re D’Nealian. They took all the pretty out of them and just left the rest. It’s like some unholy cross between cursive and print. I’ll stick with the old-fashioned ones that these are cheap imitations of, thank you.
And yes, I can, and do, still use it. I can make all the letters and write that way regularly. I don’t understand why anyone prints instead. It’s always seemed clunky to me.