[uncledaddy]

Now, I could just use the curve and line tools. But I don't honestly find those a whole lot easier, and then I have extra layers and such to deal with when I use them.

[Red Lion]

indeed, rooo, annoying and I hate using those on anything.

[uncledaddy]

Exactly.

Bah, people on Ernya defending cursive as "faster and better-looking". It was never either of those things for me, and I feel like the "better-looking" aspect of it causes it to lose any speed benefits it might have had. Because with cursive writing you're still following rules on how letters should look and how they should connect and the emphasis is generally on making it look neat and "pretty" because when cursive isn't neat, it's twice as hard to read as sloppy print. I think it defeats the purpose and if I want to write faster, I'll do it in whatever way comes naturally. "Faster" is just an excuse for old people to gripe and cling to something they know and like. r _r pfft.

[Red Lion]

I do write notably faster when I join up my letters, but I've never been overly concerned with neatness. Plus I find it easier to sign my name in cursive. my print is actually a bit sloppier and it's more all over the place cause I'm kind of naturally inclined to connect my letters.

My handwriting is a hybrid of cursive and print so I have my own weird shorthand that works for me.

gotta go eat now.

[uncledaddy]

Well, that's what I'm saying: cursive and just connecting your letters are two different things.

and OK

[Red Lion]

Well technically most of the letters are cursive ones. For me, at least, cursive is more natural and printing my letters takes more time because I try to keep them even when I print.

[uncledaddy]

But that's you trying to make them look a certain way. That is what I do when I try to write cursive: it just becomes about how it looks, and it slows me down.

[Red Lion]

Indeed, people should just do whatever feels natural,

I remember when I was a kid and my parents would sit me down and make me print all my homework in pen to try and discourage me from making mistakes. Printing was always about making the letters stencil straight and neat like my Dad writes them, and they'd get these traceable guides to fix my penmanship. I always had a tendency to put my letters close together and attach them so when third grade rolled around cursive was just more convenient and I found that preferable to printing them out.

[uncledaddy]

I had the opposite. I remember for a time, my mom and stepdad made me write all my assignments only in cursive, and I had started trying to learn to write in cursive pretty early on. Did not make it any better for me; it was just uncomfortable and looked twice as bad for no real reason.

[Red Lion]

Mine got me those things first graders use with the dotted letters to trace, it was all about making it look legible.

Which they failed miserably at,

I mean look at this example of my attempt to print neatly.
http://herr-drosselmeyer.deviantart....F39210756&qo=6

[uncledaddy]

It's... readable, at least?

Legibility was always a huge thing. But as you can see, none of that effort actually paid off or stuck.

[Red Lion]

No,

My cursive isn't much better but it's more uniform and I can write it more quickly

...is almost nine

[uncledaddy]

O wO So it is.

My cursive hasn't improved much since I first learned it. So I discard. I just write however the hell I damn well please and as long as you know what it says, it ain't gonna matter.

[Red Lion]

indeed! Same here!

Now if only people COULD read my handwriting....>.>

Roo I will wait by the phone!

[uncledaddy]

I CAN READ IT JUST FINE
and I can also read my own
we good.

[uncledaddy]

http://images.4chan.org/fit/src/1365117916484.jpg

Here you go.

How far ahead should we skip in RP?