Ah, but for us Select Few, it does make the sword mightier than the pen. No-one likes fencing a lefty. 
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I’m not sure you could learn cursive writing any other way. I, too, remember it as a chore.
I learnt my critical thinking later.
Also, gotta say, love the Avatar. Comic animals awards, no?
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“But I know something you do not. I am not left handed!”
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Meanwhile, there are many cultures where children were never taught their parent’s language or their own cultural history because speaking it aloud could have gotten them killed. (That’s why my midwestern mother can’t speak German, and why most Native American languages are endangered). Teaching cursive improves memorization and eye-hand coordination, not comprehension. Teaching kids another language will improve comprehension and may even lead to a better understanding of other cultures.
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Not only Fraktur, but cursive handwriting was quite different in those days. I’ve recently embarked on a path to German citizenship, and have had occasion to look at some old documents from 1930s-1940s Germany. I can barely make out most of the handwriting.
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My grandmother thought I should be able to sign my name when I went to kindergarten, so she taught me when I was 4. It was several years before I learned any other cursive writing.
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When I started using a fountain pen as an adult, cursive writing finally made sense. Writing cursive with a pencil is meh.
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Everyone should have two signatures. One for informal use and a different one for formal, legal use. Do not interchange them.
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You know, the English Alphabet has dropped about seven letters since printers began using presses. Maybe if a Mormon is elected we should start teaching the Deseret alphabet - Wikipedia
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Im doing an Ausbildung in Germany and frequently lose lots points because of my handwriting. It never was neat and it’s nevergoing to be neat essentially as I only ever write during Klausurs the rest of the time I type. I’ve asked if I can type but apparently it’s not possible but it’s very disencouraging to go from a good pass to a fail because I’ve got terrible handwriting and spelling.
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At a minimum!
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that looks actualy like a form of handwritten fraktur, could be sütterlin and would fit the time-period.
It was developed in 1911 and taught in all German schools as the primary script from 1915 until the beginning of January 1941
“normal” german kursiv would be kurrent.
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The one with curves and the one with elliptic curves; right?
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seems like you owe MononymousSean a coke
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The handwriting looks like Sütterlin script, which was taught in German schools from 1915 to 1941.
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Why? So you can claim one of them is not valid by signing the other? That’s some advance planning for fraud, it seems.
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Thank you!!!
This looks very much like Sütterlin. For example, the very distinctive lowercase “h”. It’s only because I know the name of the town that I could decipher this as Schurgast:
This page is a great help.
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Did you guys learn that from the philosophy department?
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