<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">SignWriting List<div>December 29, 2008</div><div><br><div><div>On Dec 28, 2008, at 5:20 AM, Sandy Fleming wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div>One is cursive, which is what I was taught in school. The idea behind<br>cursive is to avoid lifting the pen by making loops to join everything<br>up, even if these loops and joins distort the letters.<br><br>The other is italic, which only joins letters that can be joined without<br>distorting anything, and lifts the pen otherwise. So italic is closer to<br>printing and so should be more readable.</div></blockquote><br></div><div><br></div><div>Hello Sandy!</div><div>This is very informative above. I never knew the term "Italic" could be applied to any form of handwriting at all. That is a brand new term for me. I wonder if that is taught in the US now? It was not in my school in the US when I was a child...but I am very old...so that was long ago - ha!</div><div><br></div><div>Here in the US, the term Italic refers to typesetting by computer that looks like this...maybe this is true in England too? I agree that your Italic handwriting sample you showed us was easier to read for sure....</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><b><i>Hello Sandy! (see attached screen capture below)</i></b></div><div><br></div><div><img height="44" width="117" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:EE486DE1-3033-430C-85AB-4C4290296B9F"></div></div></body></html>