Oakland A's "Oakland" script

[phutmasterflex]

Is there even an "official" cursive? I know were all taught something just so they have something to grade you against, but I know several people who learned "official" cursive differently than I did. Basically as long as none of your letterforms are ambiguous does it really matter? I'd argue tho that you can connect capitals to lowercases in most cases with only slight mods to the cap.

Obviously letters like "A" and "M" can connect to lowercase letters because of where they end when writing on it, but letters like "D", "O" and "W" prevent that. I think that's why we're taught to never connect uppercase and lowercase, just for the sake of consistency. Plus, it would just look out of place

[McCall]

Is there even an "official" cursive? I know were all taught something just so they have something to grade you against, but I know several people who learned "official" cursive differently than I did. Basically as long as none of your letterforms are ambiguous does it really matter? I'd argue tho that you can connect capitals to lowercases in most cases with only slight mods to the cap.

Obviously letters like "A" and "M" can connect to lowercase letters because of where they end when writing on it, but letters like "D", "O" and "W" prevent that. I think that's why we're taught to never connect uppercase and lowercase, just for the sake of consistency. Plus, it would just look out of place

I was neve told to not connect any uppercase to lowercase letters. Some just did and some didn't. An uppercase O can connect to some lower case letters like an l or h, but not an a, and that's why Oakland doesn't connect.

[phutmasterflex]

Is there even an "official" cursive? I know were all taught something just so they have something to grade you against, but I know several people who learned "official" cursive differently than I did. Basically as long as none of your letterforms are ambiguous does it really matter? I'd argue tho that you can connect capitals to lowercases in most cases with only slight mods to the cap.

Obviously letters like "A" and "M" can connect to lowercase letters because of where they end when writing on it, but letters like "D", "O" and "W" prevent that. I think that's why we're taught to never connect uppercase and lowercase, just for the sake of consistency. Plus, it would just look out of place

I was neve told to not connect any uppercase to lowercase letters. Some just did and some didn't. An uppercase O can connect to some lower case letters like an l or h, but not an a, and that's why Oakland doesn't connect.

True, which is the point I was trying to make. Because it only works sometimes, I think that's why I was told to never connect for the sake of consistency.

[icecreamtester]

This has become an argument over cursive handwriting. Good God.

[WSU151]

Yeah but the original post was about the cursive script of the A's, so at least this thread stayed on topic. It's not like the first post was about new Nike uniforms and then it turned into a cursive argument.

[njmeadowlanders]

Teacher: So, you never learned cursive?

Bart Simpson: Um, well, I know "hell" and "damn" and (bell rings before he can get out the word bitch)

[FiddySicks]

Cursive is stupid anyway. Other than professional sports teams and the founding fathers, who actually used it after the 3rd grade?

[phutmasterflex]

Teacher: So, you never learned cursive?

Bart Simpson: Um, well, I know "hell" and "damn" and (bell rings before he can get out the word bitch)

Very nice

Cursive is stupid anyway. Other than professional sports teams and the founding fathers, who actually used it after the 3rd grade?

I do when I have to take notes during interviews for my job. It's quicker than printing

[Hat Boy]

I've never connected an uppercase O to the next letter in cursive.

Correct. Who does that anyway?

Th Baltimore Orioles.

[phutmasterflex]

I've never connected an uppercase O to the next letter in cursive.

Correct. Who does that anyway?

Th Baltimore Orioles.

I already touched up on that. It's because of the convenience of the sizing of the letters along with the slant. The lowercase letter is almost 3/4 the size of the "O". In normal writing, the lowercase is only half the size of the uppercase.

[Gothamite]

Cursive is stupid anyway. Other than professional sports teams and the founding fathers, who actually used it after the 3rd grade?

Me.

Fast, simple and elegant. Why wouldn't I use it?

[Lights Out]

Print's easier to write and read, though.

[The_Admiral]

Cursive is much faster, and my cursive is pretty good when I take my time, yet I do most of my handwriting in print (sort of all-caps in which my A is a giant Times New Roman-ish a) anyway. Sometimes we've only ourselves to blame.

[Gothamite]

Print's easier to write and read, though.

Easier to write? Not if you're doing it correctly.

[scottysprings]

My everyday handwriting is a kind of print/cursive hybrid. I usually don't connect a capitalized letter to the following letter but I do use a number of ligatures in the middle of words. I don't know about others but it takes me forever to transcribe something in cursive; I don't know if they still have it but when I took the SAT I had to copy a paragraph-long testing integrity oath in cursive and it took me way too long

[phutmasterflex]

Print's easier to write and read, though.

But if I am the only one reading my own notes, I use cursive because it's faster

[oddball]

I use cursive all the time and most people look at it and compliment me. I use it because it's easier and looks better because it has more character than printing does. For me printing is just a pain in the butt and really annoying. So if people like my handwriting because I make it so people can read, then why waste my time using the boring clunky print? That's just me.

[Fjm]

Some of us older people had to actually turn in school reports in cursive. Back in the day, typewriters and then computers weren't as commonly used. I guess now everything is printed from a computer.

[Ferdinand Cesarano]

I always hated writing in script. (That was the everyday term. "Cursive" was technical jargon, said only by teachers.) Everything just comes out looking like a series of oooooo's. Very hard to read.

But, we were indeed forced to write that way in school up until late grammar school, maybe 6th or 7th grade. I recall that, by 8th grade, I was finally able to get away with printing only. (In printing, I do actually use one ligature. I connect the lower-case T and H, though not in the manner of the connection in script -- I connect the cross of the T to the upstroke on the H, and then retrace a bit of the vertical part of the H on the downstroke.)

Even during the time that I was forced to write in script, I began using printed capital letters. I was not about to write those ridiculous script capitals: A, D, G, J, Q, S, and, especially Z. (Come to think of it, the Braves' road lettering is an example of how I would write: a printed capital A, with the rest of the word in script.)

The one script capital letter which I liked enough to use was the letter F, which is the first letter in my first name (Ferdinand). The only thing I write in script nowadays is my signature; so I use that script F every day. (It is really too bad that I am not famous; I have a very cool-looking signature.)

[BBTV]

I always hated writing in script. (That was the everyday term. "Cursive" was technical jargon, said only by teachers.) Everything just comes out looking like a series of oooooo's. Very hard to read.

But, we were indeed forced to write that way in school up until late grammar school, maybe 6th or 7th grade. I recall that, by 8th grade, I was finally able to get away with printing only. (In printing, I do actually use one ligature. I connect the lower-case T and H, though not in the manner of the connection in script -- I connect the cross of the T to the upstroke on the H, and then retrace a bit of the vertical part of the H on the downstroke.)

Even during the time that I was forced to write in script, I began using printed capital letters. I was not about to write those ridiculous script capitals: A, D, G, J, Q, S, and, especially Z. (Come to think of it, the Braves' road lettering is an example of how I would write: a printed capital A, with the rest of the word in script.)

The one script capital letter which I liked enough to use was the letter F, which is the first letter in my first name (Ferdinand). The only thing I write in script nowadays is my signature; so I use that script F every day. (It is really too bad that I am not famous; I have a very cool-looking signature.)

Actually, the "e" in "Braves" is capital for some reason. Very odd.