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I've heard some schools are reintroducing it now, but that doesn't help those that never learned. (startrek.website)
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[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

When I hear “joined-up writing” I envision his second picture. Cursive would be the first. Cursive is a type of joined-up writing but here in the US when we refer to the writing in the first image just call it cursive. Why would we use a more generic term when we have a more specific term?