Single Space or Double Space
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@Carnival-Boy said:
Surely the main point is that cursive is faster to write and therefore better.
I know people say this, but i have never seen proof.
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@Carnival-Boy said:
Surely the main point is that cursive is faster to write and therefore better.
I've heard that the entire point of writing is to be able to be read and therefore cursive isn't better. The idea that speed beats readability is an odd one. Sure, sometimes you can read it, but many times you cannot. It's incredibly difficult to read (ergo, slow) so it generally defeats any speed advantages that it might have. But I'm not convinced that it is faster to write either. At least not to write correctly. If you are okay with it not being legible, sure anything is fast when it is reduced to scribbling.
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@scottalanmiller said:
The idea that speed beats readability is an odd one.
It's only odd if you assume the two are mutually exclusive.
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I'm going to have to give this one to Scott. Even the people I know who use cursive beautifully, it's still harder to read than hand written print. Cursive is rarely if ever easier to read than print.
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@Carnival-Boy said:
@scottalanmiller said:
The idea that speed beats readability is an odd one.
It's only odd if you assume the two are mutually exclusive.
I've never seen them not be mutually exclusive. I have never seen cursive, from anyone, that was easy to read. Not even when written slowly. When written quickly it is pretty much universally nothing but scribbles.
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@Dashrender said:
I'm going to have to give this one to Scott. Even the people I know who use cursive beautifully, it's still harder to read than hand written print. Cursive is rarely if ever easier to read than print.
It's not easier. But it's faster. If it's both legible and fast then it is better. Talking really, really slowly and only using words of less than six characters is easier for someone to understand, but that doesn't mean we should.
Besides, 99% of what I write is only ever read by me.
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@Carnival-Boy said:
It's not easier. But it's faster. If it's both legible and fast then it is better. Talking really, really slowly and only using words of less than six characters is easier for someone to understand, but that doesn't mean we should.
IF it was legible and fast, yes, that would be better. That's not a use case I've seen come up in decades. Literally. I've not seen a single cursive document that I was able to read in a very long time. A word here or there, sure, but nothing real.
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I like to mix it up with a bit here and a bit there.
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If I can't write it on Compy 64, I don't write it.
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