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Possible virus in the cursive.svg file

Downloaded file and opened it up. Apparently has a virus for "deal4real" and will inject ads into webpages and downloaded several Trojans and add-ons. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.103.219.66 (talk) 22:54, 5 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Picture

I added the first pciture, an example of a cursive alphabet, if you don't like it please comment here.

"Lines crossing at 90-degrees from the original text"

In the early days of the post office, letters were written in cursive — and to fit more text on a single sheet, the text was continued in lines crossing at 90-degrees from the original text. Block letters could not do this. --- a visual example would be helpful; I have no idea how this is possible or how it would be readable (or how it would be any less readable than if it were done in print). You mean something like this???

T h i s   i s  a 
 T t s b 9 t o t
s e n t e n c e
 h e h e 0 h t e
A n d   a n o t h e r
 i x o   ' e h x
o n e .   T h i s
 s t u a     e t
i s   r e a l l y
     l t t   r
a n n o y i n g
     d   o
t o   t y p e.

Thanks. PS. I write block letters (with some idiosyncratic joined letters/ligatures) a lot faster than I can write cursive. cab 14:44, 15 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. I think I was the one who added that passage. It's not at all like your example. Imagine two pieces of transparent plastic, as for an overhead projector. Put one with the short end of the plastic up and one with the long end up. Write the first page of your letter in cursive (why do I have to say "joined up") - say there's thirty-five short lines of text. Write the second page on the other piece of plastic - twenty longer lines of text. Turn the second sheet of plastic ninety degrees and lay it atop the other. Placing the set on a white background, you can focus on the shorter joined-up lines going across, one after the other, and then turn the combo and follow the twenty shorter lines. I have no example, I read this in some magazine. 66.19.204.153 (talk) 23:45, 24 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

You know you're responding to an eight year old comment, right? Anyway, there is a picture of this at Crossed letter. Kendall-K1 (talk) 01:00, 25 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

splitting off "English cursive" / Generic stub Cursive Western script

I would support to enter the category "Western Cursive". As a continental European, I find the iuxtaposition of Cursive Chinese and Cursive English an imperial British monstrosity. Cursive English is just a child of Cursive Western script. Should we enter Cursive French, Cursive Dutch, Cursive Finnish etc. all on this page?

It's not art, it's a craft!

An art form emphasizes creativity and interpretation. Cursive is about proper technique and form. It's something that can be done (and is) by computer fonts; it is a solved problem. Art is something a computer could never do. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.141.136.222 (talk) 22:12, 26 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Art versus Craft argument Zzzzzz (yes I know it's an old comment. So what?) Air (talk) 21:29, 19 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Delete paragraph on international use of word 'cursive'?

The paragraph in the intro beginning 'While the terms cursive or script are popular in the United States...' contains no citations. It also contains some claims and implications that appear to me (an Australian) to be false or dubious:

It claims that 'cursive' is rarely used outside of the US, but it is frequently used in Australia. The OED entry on cursive does not indicate that it is chiefly a US term.
It implies that 'handwriting' and 'cursive' are used synonymously in various countries, including Australia. But in Australia at least, 'handwriting' need not be cursive.
It claims that the term 'running-writing' is popular in Australia, but I've rarely heard it used, if ever.

Potential inaccuracies aside, the material in the paragraph is not particularly important, and could easily be dispensed with. The intro is perhaps a little too long and detailed anyway. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 150.203.225.223 (talk) 21:44, 9 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Cursive

Why is the form of lowercase r in Cursive is so different?
Pay attention that: In Hebrew, the "Cursive" letters usually do not touch each other.
84.95.230.168 (talk) 22:29, 17 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

English cursive final paragraphs

The essay-like template popped out at me when I scrolled down to this section, and through a cursory reading I found no blaring errors, however...

Can those last two paragraphs be deleted entirely for the present? Finding citations to match the text is vexing, though there has been extensive debate in the U.S. regarding its use or fall into disuse; the claims of other countries judging literacy by cursive proficiency and cursive being a full-ride pass into public office cannot be backed by any sources I've found, and I doubt this is related to the heading's title, English cursive, whatsoever. Kaschimmel (talk) 16:16, 7 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Silly me; I didn't think to scroll down half an inch to see the Cursive in the United States heading. This addresses half of the content of the previous rogue paragraphs in depth. I went ahead and deleted the two paragraphs I complained about earlier because of this; the first half is already addressed almost at the same place in the article, and the second half doesn't belong there (or anywhere on the page, as it was) in the first place. If my changes were too drastic or unseemly, please post here. Kaschimmel (talk) 16:24, 7 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I agree, the "decline of English cursive in the United States" section is a mess. Most of the references are valuable, but they are tacked on to rambling, speculative paragraphs with bad writing like "It has been an open topic in which cursive could be soon removed from all schools." Seems like replacing this section with just a few sentences that speak concisely to the references would be a big improvement. 174.62.136.75 (talk) 14:41, 2 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Arabic as inspiration of Latin cursive

I think that the assertion "this flowing script [Arabic] inspired the cursive of Medieval Latin" is quite dubious. Latin (and Greek) cursive script has a well known development history and it is quite an ancient one. The source of this assertion is the book "The Eastern Mysteries: An Encyclopedic Guide to the Sacred Languages & Magickal Systems of the World" by David Allen Hulse, not a very authoritative one in my opinion. BRG~itwiki (talk) 16:12, 10 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. Per WP:FRINGE this sentence should just be removed. Kendall-K1 (talk) 18:07, 10 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]