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  2. Cursive - Wikipedia

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    It varies in functionality and modern-day usage across languages and regions; being used both publicly in artistic and formal documents as well as in private communication. Formal cursive is generally joined, but casual cursive is a combination of joins and pen lifts. The writing style can be further divided as "looped", "italic", or "connected".

  3. Regional handwriting variation - Wikipedia

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    Confusion between the numeral 0 and the letter O can also be resolved by using a script letter O (with a loop at the top). [1] The numeral 1: This numeral is sometimes written with a serif at the top extending downward and to the left. People in some parts of Europe extend this stroke nearly the whole distance to the baseline.

  4. List of writing systems - Wikipedia

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    Writing systems are used to record human language, and may be classified according to certain common features. The usual name of the script is given first; the name of the languages in which the script is written follows (in brackets), particularly in the case where the language name differs from the script name. Other informative or qualifying ...

  5. Penmanship - Wikipedia

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    Example of classic American business cursive handwriting known as Spencerian script from 1884 A thin object (pen), held with three fingers, allows one to draw thin lines. Penmanship is the technique of writing with the hand using a writing instrument.

  6. French language in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The French language is spoken as a minority language in the United States.Roughly 1.18 million Americans over the age of five reported speaking the language at home in the federal 2020 American Community Survey, [1] making French the seventh most spoken language in the country behind English, Spanish (of which it is the second Romance language to be spoken after the latter), Chinese, Tagalog ...

  7. Should schools still teach cursive in the digital age?

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    Cursive lessons forge important pathways that benefit all types of learning “To the human brain, the act of handwriting is very different from punching letters on a keyboard.

  8. Cursive handwriting instruction in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In 2011, 41 states adopted the Common Core standards, thus removing the requirement for cursive instruction in the respective state curriculum. [3] When the system was revisited after the skill was taken out of the core requirements, school therapists reported that some students struggled with manuscript but excelled in cursive writing. [ 4 ]

  9. French language - Wikipedia

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    Significant as a judicial language, French is one of the official languages of such major international and regional courts, tribunals, and dispute-settlement bodies as the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights, the Caribbean Court of Justice, the Court of Justice for the Economic Community of West African States, the Inter-American Court ...