Talk:2912: Cursive Letters

That Q is pretty easy to read, but a lot of people write it in a way that looks more like 2. That Q always throws me off. The 2 goes close to the bottom left, neither cool nor legible. EebstertheGreat (talk) 21:28, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

Cursive has been in the news lately, almost half the US states have recently passed laws requiring that cursive writing be taught in elementary schools. Barmar (talk) 21:30, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

Recently? I think only California did it recently, most of those laws are older. -- Hkmaly (talk) 22:14, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

Is this the default cursive taught in US American schools? I’ve often seen this capital I, G and Q on (older) Hollywood films, but the (standard) cursive writing in Germany or France looks completely different. --162.158.154.99 21:49, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

Yes for the most part, at least from when I was taught (early 2000s). Though, we were taught the Q that looks like a 2, like the poster above comments on. ZeWaka (talk) 06:43, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

Labelled: https://i.imgur.com/dTdLgO6.png Bewa (talk) 22:09, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

Meanwhile if this was Russian/Cyrillic cursive, almost every letter would be at y=0! 172.69.7.49 00:10, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

Is that a "u" in the lower left? SDSpivey (talk) 03:11, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

Hi, so this is my first ever comment; feel free to yell at me if I’m doing it wrong. But to answer your question, nope, that’s a lowercase v. That said, the two can be frustratingly similar in some handwritings. Also, while this isn’t the point of the comic (and I assume it uses Munroe’s own handwriting) some of those letters can be made more legible and/or much cooler looking if you just write them with an alternate style. — ThatSciNerd (talk) 03:31, 28 March 2024 (UTC)