When I was a kid I had a hard time slanting my cursive writing. My teacher told me to just slant the paper, so I kept turning it more and more until it was fully sideways, still writing upright because I adjusted to the angle. After days of this my teacher cried “Just write angled letters!” and I went “Oh!” and was able to do it perfectly from then on.
Anyway I guess my point is different stuff works for different people.
Did we ever find out why cursive was recommended to be slanted? I’d mostly forgotten that was a thing and now it seems stupid. Probably one person thought it looked better that way and people did it to seem fancy. A lot of grammar “rules” started from one person’s preferences so this might’ve been the same.
Makes it easier for right handed people to write legibly. At least that was the reason we were taught back in the late '80s when I was learning cursive. Doesn’t help us lefties since we just smudge the damn writing.
When I was a kid I had a hard time slanting my cursive writing. My teacher told me to just slant the paper, so I kept turning it more and more until it was fully sideways, still writing upright because I adjusted to the angle. After days of this my teacher cried “Just write angled letters!” and I went “Oh!” and was able to do it perfectly from then on.
Anyway I guess my point is different stuff works for different people.
Did we ever find out why cursive was recommended to be slanted? I’d mostly forgotten that was a thing and now it seems stupid. Probably one person thought it looked better that way and people did it to seem fancy. A lot of grammar “rules” started from one person’s preferences so this might’ve been the same.
Makes it easier for right handed people to write legibly. At least that was the reason we were taught back in the late '80s when I was learning cursive. Doesn’t help us lefties since we just smudge the damn writing.
I know if I try to write cursive straight up and down it looks very jagged.