xkcd #2912: Cursive Letters

My cursive looks like a 10yr old wrote it, which is about the last time I actually wrote in cursive

Lowercase m, n, u, v, and w are confusing as shit when placed next to or near each other.

I do not agree that uppercase G is easier to decipher than uppercase S

You may be cool, but you'll never be "Capital L" cool...

nothing in this life feels better than writing a cursive f. i put my whole arm into it. those things are the highlights of anything i write

Let's be honest. You didn't like learning cursive, you didn't like having to write full-ass papers in cursive because the computer lab was always full as a teenager, and you don't like writing cursive now because it means you probably have to borrow a pen from somebody at work who never washes their hands. Sincerely, a 45 year old.

I recently found an old letter from my grandpa to my grandma during the war in Old German handwriting. A lot of spikes. Decided to learn to read it. Nice journey, I recommend. (Not necessarily old GERMAN handwriting, but, you now, old handwriting in your mother tongue).

I ended up kind of creating my own cursive "font" because I thought several of the choices for letter shapes were, in graphological parlance, "Just completely fucking retarded." Like the lowercase S being a slightly pointy loop. I devised my own capital T as well, and jettisoned that Q that looks like a 2.

I wrote in completely illegible cursive until about halfway through college when I started using a laptop for all assignments. On a decent keyboard I can peak at 104 wpm. On the very rare occasion I do have to pick up a pen and write with it anymore, I'm usually jotting down measurements or something, or slopping out some squiggles that will just have to suffice as my signature.

I don't see teaching cursive to children as a particularly valuable usage of time, at this point it might be worth teaching them to read it, but proficiency in writing it is not valuable.

Omitted is the capital Q that looks like a 2.

It's gets so much worse when you use russian cursive.

In the right bottom corner that's clearly greek Xi

I wonder how much the placement of the uppercase L stems from Randall Munroe's own memories of Far Side comics with the "Larson" signature.

Serious question for people younger than me: How did you come up with a signature if you didn't learn cursive?

Looking at this, while there is some overlap, it's very apparent that US cursive is not the same as Swedish cursive. E.g. lower case x starting from the top? O_O

Lowercase b should be lower on y axis

what the hell is cursive?!

"Rirruto?"

"Those are Z's"

"Well they look like R's to me."

"That's not fair! Rizzuto's not even a word, he's a baseball player! I hate school! I'm never coming back!"

https://explainxkcd.com/2912

They're all easy to read when you know cursive.

Cursive f is actually way to high the whole point of cursive is to learn to write fast and cursive f is slower. I'm sure a large amount of people aren't even aware it's an f ( the middle right two)

Hard disagree on this one, the lowercase k needs to be way more to the right, or at the very least should have h i and l to the left of it. k looks so kool.

I never liked the lower case "r" and "s." They're so awkward to make.

little b should be in the low left corner