[guerrilla defunct] @guerrillarain@witches.town

@guerrillarain i learned cursive Latin, but only "normal" Cyrillic

when writing long form text*, i fall back to cursive, and it looks a lot prettier than my hastily written block text — which actually tends to look butt ugly especially on forms where you're *have* to use it 😹

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*a lot of my talks / blog posts are at least partially written on paper

An illustration by Beth Evans that reads:

You are so much more than your mental health and you are great.

@guerrillarain

I did learn cursive. I think it's pretty, but ultimately pretty useless. I wish we'd spent time learning something more useful in school instead.

Like I said in my previous thread, I'm not saying white American cultural attitudes are at the core of most if not all of America's constant problems based solely on my experiences.

That is what the data says. That is what history says.

If one cannot acknowledge that basic history then we're going to have a problem. That's just how it is.

I am extremely reasonable person, but no I'm not going to take your feelings as credible fact. Because they're not.

@guerrillarain ugh... up till 8th grade we were forced to write in cursive and lost points if we didn’t. even in math/algebra. i hated it so much that i just lost the points and printed neatly. i didn’t like it because it was too slow for me, and we moved to a new state and the new state’s handwriting rules were uglier than the previous. we had year long penmanship classes and they were my worst subject for grades.

i don’t mind reading it (usually), but i don’t write it. fuck that shit :)

@guerrillarain Cursive. It's how we are taught in school in France. But most people of my age seems to have switched to non-cursive after leaving elementary school.

@guerrillarain I did the cursive in school for a while, then I stopped.. never done it again

A fun thing about learning Japanese is that you learn that 字　sort of means letter and is pronounced "ji".

Then you learn that 文 written next
to it makes 文字 which also sort of means letter and is read "moji".

Then you learn that 絵 means drawing and is pronounced "e".

Then you learn that 絵文字 is emoji and you get completely floored.

@guerrillarain If you ain’t writing cursive, you ain’t writing.

@guerrillarain I learned cursive but never use it, even though I've gotten into fountain pens. The Greek alphabet is more important to me than cursive letters, by far.

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The straights are at it again

https://octodon.social/media/6tSIeqheybjK4UW4zb4

@guerrillarain I was taught cursive but I wouldn’t say I learned it...